Converting Timestamp as String to Date in android

Question

I am getting Timestamp value as 1291204449 from server so I extracted the value by implementing handler. Now I want to convert timestamp value to date.(But the problem is in my activity I stored this value in a string variable because handler returning in string format).

Accepted Answer

Just use the Time class. Try something similar to this.

```
Time time = new Time();
time.set(Long.valueOf(yourTimeString));
```

If you really need a Date object just try this.

```
Date date = new Date(Long.parse(yourTimeString));
```

Converting Timestamp as String to Date in android

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