Getting "unixtime" in Java

Java 8 added a new API for working with dates and times. With Java 8 you can use

import java.time.Instant
...
long unixTimestamp = Instant.now().getEpochSecond();

Instant.now() returns an Instant that represents the current system time. With getEpochSecond() you get the epoch seconds (unix time) from the Instant.

Avoid the Date object creation w/ System.currentTimeMillis(). A divide by 1000 gets you to Unix epoch.

As mentioned in a comment, you typically want a primitive long (lower-case-l long) not a boxed object long (capital-L Long) for the unixTime variable's type.

long unixTime = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L;