Hard time with java.sql.date

[Giselle Dazzi]

Beginner's question:
I want to create a Date object using the constructor:

Date(long date)
Constructs a Date object using the given milliseconds time value.

but Im having a very hard time figuring out how to find out the current date in miliseconds...
I tried creating a Calendar object, using

  TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Brasilia");
      Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance(tz); 

But still there is no method that gives me a value in miliseconds...
thx in advance,

[Benny Tang]

Hi,
After the instantiation of the Calendar instance, you can obtain a Date instance by invoking the method getTime() in the class Calendar. Hopes this can help you.
Benny Tang

[deepak yadav]

I am replying on the basis of the subject, the contents of the post didn't revealed that the actual problem is with java.sql.Date
java.sql.Date doesn't have a time component, so there is not much point in making an instance of that using a time precision of miliseconds
-deepak

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Gizelle --
Benny's statement is correct, but if all you want is the current time in milliseconds, you can get it using the static method System.currentTimeMillis().
Deepak --
Have a look at the constructor java.sql.Date(long).

[deepak yadav]

Hi Hill,
java.sql.Date does have the time component but it is better not to use it because it has been deprecated long ago. Also i had problems using java.sql.Date in CMP (WLS 8.1). The time component wasn't appearing in the database(Oracle 8i), but when i used java.util.Date or java.sql.Timestamp it worked fine.
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This is from 1.3.1 javadocs
public int getHours()
Deprecated.
This method is deprecated and should not be used because SQL Date values do not have a time component.
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-deepak

[Jamie Robertson]

Originally posted by Giselle Dazzi:
Beginner's question:
I want to create a Date object using the constructor:

  TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Brasilia");
      Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance(tz); 

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Brasilia");
Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance(tz); 
Date rightNow_in_brasilia = rightNow.getTime();

double check to make sure that the getTime() method preserves the "brasilia" time zone or if it reverts back to the default timezone of the computer.
Jamie

[Giselle Dazzi]

Thanks for the help everybody ! It has been crazy with this project I have to finish, I ended up not thanking you sooner.