Android get Current UTC time

Question

What is the function to get the current UTC time. I have tried with System.getCurrentTime but i get the current date and time of the device.

Thanks

Solution

System.currentTimeMillis() does give you the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. The reason you see local times might be because you convert a Date instance to a string before using it. You can use DateFormats to convert Dates to Strings in any timezone:

DateFormat df = DateFormat.getTimeInstance();
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("gmt"));
String gmtTime = df.format(new Date());

Also see this related question.

Comments

[Hyndrix]

Why not just use new Date(System.currentTimeMillis())?

[Ersin Gulbahar]

I want to user UTC+2 , how can I do tht

[Muhammad Babar]

new Date() will return the current system date! if user changes the time/date it will return wrong values!

[Rohit Lalwani]

val c = Calendar.getInstance() c.timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC") c.add(Calendar.HOUR, 2)