// Ivan Novick // Dec 22, 2007 // demonstrate obtaining the current system time in epoch format // // command line using gcj: // $ gcj current_time.java -C // $ gij current_time import java.util.Date; import java.text.DateFormat; class current_time { public static void main(String args[]) { long millis = System.currentTimeMillis(); // convert from miliseconds to seconds and print long epoch = millis / 1000; System.out.println("current epoch format time is: " + epoch); // format and print as text Date now = new Date(millis); DateFormat formatter = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(); System.out.println("epoch to string: " + formatter.format(now)); } }