How to convert an Instant to a date format? [duplicate]
I can convert a java.util.Date
to a java.time.Instant
(Java 8 and later) this way:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);
Date startTime = cal.getTime();
Instant i = startTime.toInstant();
Can anybody let me know about the convert that instant to date with a specific date & time format? i.e 2015-06-02 8:30:00
I have gone through api but could not find a satisfactory answer.
Solution 1:
If you want to convert an Instant
to a Date
:
Date myDate = Date.from(instant);
And then you can use SimpleDateFormat
for the formatting part of your question:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(myDate);
Solution 2:
An Instant is what it says: a specific instant in time - it does not have the notion of date and time (the time in New York and Tokyo is not the same at a given instant).
To print it as a date/time, you first need to decide which timezone to use. For example:
System.out.println(LocalDateTime.ofInstant(i, ZoneOffset.UTC));
This will print the date/time in iso format: 2015-06-02T10:15:02.325
If you want a different format you can use a formatter:
LocalDateTime datetime = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(i, ZoneOffset.UTC);
String formatted = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").format(datetime);
System.out.println(formatted);