Java 8: How to create a ZonedDateTime from an Epoch value?

Question

Java 8's LocalDateTime has an ofEpochSecond method. Unfortunately, there is no such method in the ZonedDateTime. Now, I have an Epoch value and an explicit ZoneId given. How do I get a ZonedDateTime out of these?

Sportsman

Answer 1

You should be able to do this via the Instant class, which can represent a moment given the epoch time. If you have epoch seconds, you might create something via something like

Instant i = Instant.ofEpochSecond(t);
ZonedDateTime z = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(i, zoneId);

Boldface

ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(i, ZoneOffset.UTC) for UTC – Systematology

Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochSecond(t); ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of("America/New_York"); ZonedDateTime z = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(instant, zoneId); for a specific ZoneId. – Hazel

Answer 2

Another simple way (different from that of the accepted answer) is to use Instant#atZone.

Demo:

import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Sample Epoch seconds and ZoneId
        Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochSecond(1665256187);
        ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of("Europe/London");

        ZonedDateTime zdt = instant.atZone(zoneId);
        System.out.println(zdt);

        // Alternatively
        zdt = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(instant, zoneId);
        System.out.println(zdt);
    }
}

Output:

2022-10-08T20:09:47+01:00[Europe/London]
2022-10-08T20:09:47+01:00[Europe/London]

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