android - Java simple Timestamp to Date conversion

Question

I've been trying to find the answer to this for a while today and there's just so much contradictory information....

What I'd like to do is get a current unix timestamp in android, and then convert it to a format that allows me to getHours() and getMinutes().

I'm currently doing this:

int time = (int) (System.currentTimeMillis());
Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(time);
mHour = ts.getHours();
mMinute = ts.getMinutes();

But it's not giving me a correct value for hour or minute (it's returning 03:38 for the current East-coast time of 13:33).

Answer 1

This works:

final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
Date date = cal.getTime();
mHour = date.getHours();
mMinute = date.getMinutes();