How to convert date format to milliseconds

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How to get the millisecond time from date  I have the following code    Date beginupd   new Date cursor1 getLong 1      This variable beginupd contains the format      Wed Oct 12 11 55 03 GMT 05 30 2011   Now how to convert this format to the millisecond time in Long datatype  Any help is highly appreciated and thanks in advance

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long millisecond   beginupd getTime      Date getTime   JavaDoc states      Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT   represented by this Date object

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You could use   Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance    cal setTime beginupd   long millis   cal getTimeInMillis

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date setTime milliseconds     this is for set milliseconds in date   long milli   date getTime      This is for get time in milliseconds      Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT

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beginupd getTime   will give you time in milliseconds since January 1  1970  00 00 00 GMT till the time you have specified in Date object

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