[java] How can I create a Java 8 LocalDate from a long Epoch time in Milliseconds?

I have an external API that returns me dates as longs, represented as milliseconds since the beginning of the Epoch.

With the old style Java API, I would simply construct a Date from it with

Date myDate = new Date(startDateLong)

What is the equivalent in Java 8's LocalDate/LocalDateTime classes?

I am interested in converting the point in time represented by the long to a LocalDate in my current local timezone.

Timezones and stuff aside, a very simple alternative to new Date(startDateLong) could be LocalDate.ofEpochDay(startDateLong / 86400000L)

You can start with Instant.ofEpochMilli(long):

LocalDate date =
  Instant.ofEpochMilli(startDateLong)
  .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())
  .toLocalDate();

replace now.getTime() with your long value.

//GET UTC time for current date
        Date now= new Date();
        //LocalDateTime utcDateTimeForCurrentDateTime = Instant.ofEpochMilli(now.getTime()).atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC")).toLocalDateTime();
        LocalDate localDate = Instant.ofEpochMilli(now.getTime()).atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC")).toLocalDate();
        DateTimeFormatter dTF2 = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
        System.out.println(" formats as " + dTF2.format(utcDateTimeForCurrentDateTime));

I think I have a better answer.

new Timestamp(longEpochTime).toLocalDateTime();

In a specific case where your epoch seconds timestamp comes from SQL or is related to SQL somehow, you can obtain it like this:

long startDateLong = <...>

LocalDate theDate = new java.sql.Date(startDateLong).toLocalDate();