Solved More & More Dates in Java

I'm just wondering how do I convert a date e.g Thursday, April 20, 2017, 4:48 PM to milliseconds so I can check if the time has gone 1 minute?

 

Where do you get that date?

 

Code:

public static void temporaryBan(Player p, long time, String reason) {
        isTempBanned = true;

        Date date = new Date((time * 1000) + System.currentTimeMillis());
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm a");
        sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        String timeDate = sdf.format(date);

        tempBanned.add(p.getUniqueId());
        temporary.set("bans.arraylist", tempBanned);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".banned", true);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".reason", reason);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".amount", temporary.getInt(p.getUniqueId() + ".amount") + 1);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".time", timeDate);
        saveFile(temporaryYML, temporary);
        p.kickPlayer(reason);
    }

@timtower
And about the System.currentTimeMillis(); So I would write date.compareTo(New date)? But I think I can do something like this:

Code:

if(date.compareTo(newDate) >= System.currentTimeMillis()) {
    //Whatever
}

 

Don't store the date as a string, just store it as System.currentTimeMillis. Then you can compare the milliseconds directly without converting.

Like this

Code:

public static void temporaryBan(Player p, long time, String reason) {
        isTempBanned = true;

        tempBanned.add(p.getUniqueId());
        temporary.set("bans.arraylist", tempBanned);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".banned", true);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".reason", reason);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".amount", temporary.getInt(p.getUniqueId() + ".amount") + 1);
        temporary.set(p.getUniqueId() + ".time", System.currentTimeMillis());
        saveFile(temporaryYML, temporary);
        p.kickPlayer(reason);
    }

Also, what is isTempBanned? That would get set to true once anyone is tempbanned - that variable is only really checking whether anyone has ever been tempbanned before

 

Thanks, @MCMastery & @timtower for the help much appreciated!