Java Unix Date toUnixTime(SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat, String audioboxDate)

Description

Given a string representing an UTC date provided by AudioBox server, this method returns a unix timestamp (always in UTC).

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
simpleDateFormat	the simple date format
audioboxDate	the string date provided by audiobox server.

Exception

Parameter	Description
ParseException	the parse exception

Return

unix timestamp

Declaration

public static long toUnixTime(SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat, String audioboxDate) throws ParseException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w  w  w  .j  av  a2  s  . co  m*/
 * Copyright 2009-2014 iCoreTech, Inc.
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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    public static final String AUDIOBOX_DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'";

    /**
     * Given a string representing an UTC date provided by AudioBox server,
     * this method returns a unix timestamp (always in UTC).
     *
     * @param simpleDateFormat the simple date format
     * @param audioboxDate     the string date provided by audiobox server.
     *
     * @return unix timestamp
     *
     * @throws ParseException the parse exception
     */
    public static long toUnixTime(SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat, String audioboxDate) throws ParseException {

        simpleDateFormat.applyPattern(AUDIOBOX_DATE_FORMAT);
        simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        Date date = simpleDateFormat.parse(audioboxDate);
        return date.getTime();
    }
}

Related

1. getUnixTime(String dateTime)
2. getUnixTime2NoneTime(String longTime)
3. parseUnixDate(String paramName, String dateStr)
4. stringUnixTime(String start, String end)
5. toUnixTime(Date date)
6. unixTime()
7. unixTimeToDate(long unixTime)
8. unixTimeToDateInt(long unixTime)
9. unixTimeToString(int time)