Forum Post: Re: Date Field displaying 12/31/1969

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I am not sure what steps you did in particular, but this date is the "0" date in java. If you look at the javadocs , this constructor on Date uses an offset from baseline time: Allocates a Date 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. If you don't get the 1970 value you are probably on EST, or a time zone west of Greenwich, England, hence the result. What were you expecting?

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