title: Convert the time stamps into long value
body: <p>I would like to convert this time stamps to Long value.</p>
  
  <pre><code>2016-07-13T21:11:45+00:00
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  <p>I still don't know what the format of above time stamp, like <code>MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa</code> to use with the <code>SimpleDateFormat</code>.</p>