Get date representation in seconds?

Question

I am using an API which requires a date parameter as a number of seconds, an int.

My problem is that I currently store this time in java.util.date and I was wondering if there is some way to convert the java.util.date variable to seconds so that I can fit it into the int parameter which the API requires?

Answer 1

import java.util.Date;

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long secs = (new Date().getTime())/1000;
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Please see: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#getTime().