Android: how to get the number of milliseconds since January 1st 1970 for a defined date?

Question

I have seen this post which explains how to get the number of milliseconds since 1970 for the CURRENT DATE:

how to get the number of seconds passed since 1970 for a date value?

My question is: how to get this value in milliseconds for any date ?

Thanks !!

Answer 1

Calendar c = new Calendar();

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
// year, month, day, hourOfDay, minute
c.set(1990, 7, 12, 9, 34);
long millis = c.getTimeInMillis();