{"id":11220,"date":"2022-09-26T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-android-system-currenttimemillis-not-an-accurate-timestamp-duplicate\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:25:38","slug":"solved-why-is-android-system-currenttimemillis-not-an-accurate-timestamp-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-android-system-currenttimemillis-not-an-accurate-timestamp-duplicate\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Why is Android System.currentTimeMillis() not an accurate Timestamp? [duplicate]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-58274743\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"58274743\" data-parentid=\"58274641\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>While epoch time is measured in seconds, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/javase\/7\/docs\/api\/java\/lang\/System.html#currentTimeMillis()\"><code>System.currentTimeMillis()<\/code><\/a> returns the time in milliseconds for more accuracy, which is the value you see in the example. If you divide it by 1000 you will get the time in seconds, which will convert to the current epoch time you expect.<\/p>\n<p>You can paste the value in here to see the timestamp: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epochconverter.com\/\">https:\/\/www.epochconverter.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">3<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Why is Android System.currentTimeMillis() not an accurate Timestamp? [duplicate] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] While epoch time is measured in seconds, System.currentTimeMillis() returns the time in milliseconds for more accuracy, which is the value you see in the example. If you divide it by 1000 you will get the time in seconds, which will convert to the current epoch time you expect. 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