Convert timestamp in milliseconds to string formatted time in Java

Solution 1:

Try this:

Date date = new Date(logEvent.timeSTamp);
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss.SSS");
formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
String dateFormatted = formatter.format(date);

See SimpleDateFormat for a description of other format strings that the class accepts.

See runnable example using input of 1200 ms.

Solution 2:

long millis = durationInMillis % 1000;
long second = (durationInMillis / 1000) % 60;
long minute = (durationInMillis / (1000 * 60)) % 60;
long hour = (durationInMillis / (1000 * 60 * 60)) % 24;

String time = String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d.%d", hour, minute, second, millis);

Solution 3:

I'll show you three ways to (a) get the minute field from a long value, and (b) print it using the Date format you want. One uses java.util.Calendar, another uses Joda-Time, and the last uses the java.time framework built into Java 8 and later.

The java.time framework supplants the old bundled date-time classes, and is inspired by Joda-Time, defined by JSR 310, and extended by the ThreeTen-Extra project.

The java.time framework is the way to go when using Java 8 and later. Otherwise, such as Android, use Joda-Time. The java.util.Date/.Calendar classes are notoriously troublesome and should be avoided.

java.util.Date & .Calendar

final long timestamp = new Date().getTime();

// with java.util.Date/Calendar api
final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTimeInMillis(timestamp);
// here's how to get the minutes
final int minutes = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
// and here's how to get the String representation
final String timeString =
    new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss:SSS").format(cal.getTime());
System.out.println(minutes);
System.out.println(timeString);

Joda-Time

// with JodaTime 2.4
final DateTime dt = new DateTime(timestamp);
// here's how to get the minutes
final int minutes2 = dt.getMinuteOfHour();
// and here's how to get the String representation
final String timeString2 = dt.toString("HH:mm:ss:SSS");
System.out.println(minutes2);
System.out.println(timeString2);

Output:

24
09:24:10:254
24
09:24:10:254

java.time

long millisecondsSinceEpoch = 1289375173771L;
Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli ( millisecondsSinceEpoch );
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant ( instant , ZoneOffset.UTC );

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern ( "HH:mm:ss:SSS" );
String output = formatter.format ( zdt );

System.out.println ( "millisecondsSinceEpoch: " + millisecondsSinceEpoch + " instant: " + instant + " output: " + output );

millisecondsSinceEpoch: 1289375173771 instant: 2010-11-10T07:46:13.771Z output: 07:46:13:771

Solution 4:

It is possible to use apache commons (commons-lang3) and its DurationFormatUtils class.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
  <version>3.1</version>
</dependency>

For example:

String formattedDuration = DurationFormatUtils.formatDurationHMS(12313152);
// formattedDuration value is "3:25:13.152"
String otherFormattedDuration = DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(12313152, DurationFormatUtils.ISO_EXTENDED_FORMAT_PATTERN);
// otherFormattedDuration value is "P0000Y0M0DT3H25M13.152S"

Hope it can help ...

Solution 5:

long second = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millis);
long minute = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis);
long hour = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(millis);
millis -= TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(second);
return String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d:%d", hour, minute, second, millis);