Java Timestamp - How can I create a Timestamp with the date 23/09/2007?

Question

How can I create a Timestamp with the date 23/09/2007?

Answer 1

By Timestamp, I presume you mean java.sql.Timestamp. You will notice that this class has a constructor that accepts a long argument. You can parse this using the DateFormat class:

DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = dateFormat.parse("23/09/2007");
long time = date.getTime();
new Timestamp(time);

Answer 2

According to the API the constructor which would accept year, month, and so on is deprecated. Instead you should use the Constructor which accepts a long. You could use a Calendar implementation to construct the date you want and access the time-representation as a long, for example with the getTimeInMillis method.

Answer 3

What do you mean timestamp? If you mean milliseconds since the Unix epoch:

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2007, 9 - 1, 23);
long millis = cal.getTimeInMillis();

If you want an actual java.sql.Timestamp object:

Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(millis);

Answer 4

What about this?

Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.valueOf("2007-09-23 10:10:10.0");

Answer 5

You could also do the following:

// untested
Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 23);// I might have the wrong Calendar constant...
cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 8);// -1 as month is zero-based
cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2009);
Timestamp tstamp = new Timestamp(cal.getTimeInMillis());