How to convert milliseconds to Date in Java - tutorial example

Do you want to convert milliseconds to Date in Java ? Actually java.util.Date is internally specified in milliseconds from epoch. So any date is number of millisecond passed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT and Date provides constructorwhich can be used to create Date from milliseconds. Knowing the fact that Date is internally maintained in milliseconds allows you to store date in form of millisecond in Server or in your Classbecause that can be effectively expressed with a long value. In fact many experienced Java programmer store Date as long value while writing Immutable class which requires Date, one of the reason for that is Date being mutable and long value of Date can be very handy. By the ways this is next in Date related article, we have already discussed How to convert String to Date and How to get current month, year and day of week from Date in Java. If you haven’t read them already, you may find them useful. In this Java tutorial we will see example of converting millisecond into Date in Java.

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