Why doesn't this work (Date/Time conversion)

[David Yutzy]

Ok...

I'm writing some code that reads attributes from Active Directory and the attribute value returned is thus:

this.pwdLastSet = 127560719042795072

    public synchronized String getPwdLastSet() {
        String retVal = null;
        Date date = new Date();
        long dt = Long.parseLong(this.pwdLastSet);
        
        date.setTime(dt);
        
        retVal = date.toLocaleString();
        
        return retVal;

What I get back is some jacked up date. Try substituting date.getTime() instead of this.pwdLastSet and it still comes back all crazy.
[ March 23, 2005: Message edited by: David Yutzy ]

[Horatio Westock]

Have a look at the Apache POI project, in particular this. There is a method in there: filetimeToDate(int high, int low), which lets you convert between the windows epoch and the unix epoch.

If you are doing other stuff with windows datatypes, you will probably find other goodies in the POI project.

[David Yutzy]

Very useful, but to get what I need, I have to somehow parse the "low" and "high" bits of the 64-bit number returned into 2x32 bit numbers.

Any idea how to do this?