BigDecimal to Date

[Tanu Gulati]

Can any body tell me how to convert BigDecimal to Date?

[Jesper de Jong]

A BigDecimal holds a number. A Date is something completely different. Does your BigDecimal hold a number that somehow encodes a date? You need to know what the number in the BigDecimal means exactly to be able to convert it.

Assuming that your BigDecimal holds the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970, 12:00 AM UTC (which is a common way to encode dates), you could do it like this:

BigDecimal num = ...;  // wherever you get this
Date date = new Date(num.longValue());