关于Date

关于Date

1. java.util.Date

java.util.Date类中有一个 fastTime属性，此属性保存时间的long类型值，Date类型在java中是以long类型保存的，与1970.01.01的时间差。

2.获取当前时间

Date now = new Date( ); //获得Date类型当前时间
long now = new Date( ).getTime(); //获得long类型当前时间

jdk中相应构造函数如下，可看出在构造Date时是将系统当前时间的毫秒表示赋值给fastTime属性。

  /**
     * Allocates a <code>Date</code> object and initializes it so that
     * it represents the time at which it was allocated, measured to the
     * nearest millisecond.
     *
     * @see     java.lang.System#currentTimeMillis()
     */
    public Date() {
        this(System.currentTimeMillis());
    }

    /**
     * Allocates a <code>Date</code> object and initializes it to
     * represent the specified number of milliseconds since the
     * standard base time known as "the epoch", namely January 1,
     * 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
     *
     * @param   date   the milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
     * @see     java.lang.System#currentTimeMillis()
     */
    public Date(long date) {
        fastTime = date;
    }

Date类的getTime( )方法则是返回faseTime属性。

   /**
     * Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
     * represented by this <tt>Date</tt> object.
     *
     * @return  the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
     *          represented by this date.
     */
    public long getTime() {
        return getTimeImpl();
    }

    private final long getTimeImpl() {
        if (cdate != null && !cdate.isNormalized()) {
            normalize();
        }
        return fastTime;
    }