Java date is not preserving milliseconds in conversion with simple date format

Question

I\'m trying to convert the following string \"2012-04-13 04:08:42.794\" to a date type:

    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(\         


        

Answer 1

The convertedDate object does in fact contain the millisecond information. The issue here is that the toString() method format does not print milliseconds.

Do

 System.out.println(" in utils: " + dateFormat.format(convertedDate));

You can also check if the ms are set with

 System.out.println("millis: " + convertedDate.getTime());