Unix epoch time to Java Date Object

I have a string containing the UNIX Epoch time, and I need to convert it to a Java Date Object.

String date = "1081157732";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(""); // This line
try {
    Date expiry = df.parse(date);
} catch ( ParseException ex ) {
    ex.getStackTrace();
}

The marked line is where I'm having trouble. I can't work out what the argument to SimpleDateFormat() should be, or even if I should be using SimpleDateFormat().

From stackoverflow

• long timestamp = Long.parseLong(date)
  Date expiry = new Date(timestamp)
  

• How about just:

  Date expiry = new Date(Long.parseLong(date));
  

  EDIT: as per rde6173's answer and taking a closer look at the input specified in the question , "1081157732" appears to be a seconds-based epoch value so you'd want to multiply the long from parseLong() by 1000 to convert to milliseconds, which is what Java's Date constructor uses, so:

  Date expiry = new Date(Long.parseLong(date) * 1000);
  

• Hum.... if I am not mistaken, the UNIX Epoch time is actually the same thing as

  System.currentTimeMillis()
  

  So writing

  try {
      Date expiry = new Date(Long.parseLong(date));
  }
  catch(NumberFormatException e) {
      // ...
  }
  

  should work (and be much faster that date parsing)

• Epoch is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970..

  So:

  String epochString = "1081157732";
  long epoch = Long.parseLong( epochString );
  Date expiry = new Date( epoch * 1000 );
  

  For more information: http://www.epochconverter.com/

• Better yet, use JodaTime. Much easier to parse strings and into strings. Is thread safe as well. Worth the time it will take you to implement it.