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by vickydicky

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Why lastModified() method of File Class return no of miliseconds since 1st Jan 1970 at 00.00. While no body wants to write a code to convert this into date format? Is it because of limitaion of code.And if I want it to convert it into date format which the best way to do so.

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by mark.thomson

It's based on a data type called a time_t (the numbber of seconds since 1st Jan 1970) inherited from C/UNIX.
One of the Constructors for the java.util.Date class will accept your value as an argument

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