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Java Timestamp to Date Conversion

By Chaitanya Singh | Filed Under: java

In this guide, we will learn how to convert Timestamp to Date. Timestamp has higher precision than date and is used when we want to include the fractions seconds in Date & Time.

In order to convert the Timestamp to Date, we can pass the milliseconds value while creating an object of Date class.

Date date = new Date(long time)

This long type time argument represents the milliseconds value since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. To get this milliseconds value from the given Timestamp, we can use the getTime() method of Timestamp class.

public long getTime()

Program to Convert Timestamp to Date

Let’s write the java program based on the above information:

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Date;
public class JavaExample {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    //getting the current Timestamp from system
    Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
    //Timestamp to Date
    Date date = new Date(ts.getTime());
    System.out.println("Timestamp is: "+ts);
    System.out.println("Date is: "+date);
  }
}

Output:

Timestamp to Date Example Output

You can display the converted date in various different formats as shown below:

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Date;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
public class JavaExample {
  public static void main(String args[]){
    Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
    Date date = new Date(ts.getTime());

    //Converted Date in various formats
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
    System.out.println(sdf.format(date));

    //Day Name
    SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM YY hh:mm:ss");
    System.out.println(sdf2.format(date));

    //include AM and PM
    SimpleDateFormat sdf3 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE HH:mm:ss aa");
    System.out.println(sdf3.format(date));
  }
}

Output:

Timestamp to Date conversion Java Example

References: Date and Timestamp documentation