Date and DateFormat question - newbie

[Sting]

Hello,

I have the follwing test:

static void test()
{
Date today = new Date();
Date date = new Date(30000000);

DateFormat dateFormatter;
Locale currentLocale = new Locale("en","US");

dateFormatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT,
currentLocale);

String dateOut = dateFormatter.format(date);
String todayOut = dateFormatter.format(today);

System.out.println("todayOut" + todayOut);
System.out.println("todayOut toString:" + todayOut.toString());

System.out.println("****************************");

System.out.println("dateOut" + dateOut);
System.out.println("dateOut toString:" + dateOut.toString());

}

the output is:
todayOutFeb 19, 2004
todayOut toString:Feb 19, 2004
****************************
dateOutJan 1, 1970
dateOut toString:Jan 1, 1970

I do not understand the results of dateOut : why is it Jan 1, 1970 ?
It should have been somewhere in 1971 since I had passed
30000000 to the Date ctor ; which means 30000000 seconds from 1/1/70.
any help will be appreciated.
regards,
sting

 

[Suresh]

Hello,

I have the follwing test:

static void test()
{
Date today = new Date();
Date date = new Date(30000000);

Try Date date = new Date(30000000L);


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[Thomas Weidenfeller]

I do not understand the results of dateOut : why is it Jan 1, 1970 ?
It should have been somewhere in 1971 since I had passed
30000000 to the Date ctor ; which means 30000000 seconds from 1/1/70.

MILLIseconds - please read the API documentation.
30000000 milliseconds is less than 10 hours into 1970-01-01.

And please, consider posting newbie questions to comp.lang.java.help.

/Thomas