Cannot get date from MS

[Gareth Murfin]

I have all sorts of methods ive made over the years for making date strings, but they dont seem to work now. Everytime I pass in ms they come up with 1970. 

Example:  1520764749 on this website (https://www.freeformatter.com/epoch-timestamp-to-date-converter.html) shows 3/11/2018, 6:39:37 PM

but if I pass it into any of my methods I always get 18/01/1970. Am I doing somethign wrong or has there somehow been a new bug introduced into the Data class?

    public static String getDateString(Date d)

    {

        if (d==null)

        {

            _("*warning* date passed in was null, we will assume that this is 'now' and make a new one");

            d= new Date();

        }

        //formulate this date objects

        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat();

        //we want: 2016-11-21T15:47:21+00:00

       // String dateString = df.format("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a", d);

       df.applyPattern("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss a");//PROBABLY WRONG AFTER CN1 CONVERSION

        String dateString = df.format( d);

   ///     _("dateString is ->"+dateString);

        return dateString.toString();

    }

      //takes a date object in and returns a string like 19/09/2011

    public static String getDateString_(Date d)

    {

        Calendar calendar = null;

        calendar = Calendar.getInstance();        

        calendar.setTime(d);        

        String day    = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+"";

        String month  = (calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1)+""; //month starts at 0 in java

        if (month.length()==1)

        {

            month="0"+month; // getthe zero before or it looks odd

        }

        String year   = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)+"";        

        return day+"/"+month+"/"+year;

    }

    

     public static String getDateString__(Date date)

      {        

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

        cal.setTime(date);

        int year    = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);

        int month   = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);

        int day     = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

        

        String writeme = day+"/"+month+"/"+year;

        //old way was this, so we cna test 

        //REMOVE THIS, ONLY PUT IT BACK IN FOR TESTING BACKWARDS

        //OLD WAY NOT IN USE ANYMORE writeme = day+"-"+month+"-"+year;

        

        _("getDateString__ returning "+writeme);

        return writeme;

      }

    

     

        //takes a date object in and returns a string like 19/09/2011

    public static String getDateString___(Date d)

    {

        Calendar calendar = null;

        calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

        

        calendar.setTime(d);

        

        String day    = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+"";

        String month  = (calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1)+""; //month starts at 0 in java

        if (month.length()==1)

        {

            month="0"+month; // getthe zero before or it looks odd

        }

        String year   = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR)+"";

        

        return day+"/"+month+"/"+year;

    }

[Gareth Murfin]

I noticed that the ms from System.currentMillis has 3 extra digits, ie 

1520835640781   from system.currentimemillis

1520764777      from api im using

so I assume I just need to add some value to the one that is giving me errors? Think ive done this before but i cannot recall what I need to add.

[Shai Almog]

You are getting seconds not milliseconds.

[Gareth Murfin]

Doh!!! what an idiot I am, man... Thanks Shai!!