Getting UTC time with Calendar and Date
Solution 1
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The System.out.println(cal_Two.getTime()) invocation returns a Date from getTime(). It is the Date which is getting converted to a string for println, and that conversion will use the default IST timezone in your case.
You'll need to explicitly use DateFormat.setTimeZone() to print the Date in the desired timezone.
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone);
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =
new SimpleDateFormat("EE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", Locale.US);
simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(timeZone);
System.out.println("Time zone: " + timeZone.getID());
System.out.println("default time zone: " + TimeZone.getDefault().getID());
System.out.println();
System.out.println("UTC: " + simpleDateFormat.format(calendar.getTime()));
System.out.println("Default: " + calendar.getTime());
Edit To convert cal to date
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int month = cal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int day = cal.get(Calendar.DATE);
System.out.println(year);
Date date = new Date(year - 1900, month, day); // is same as date = new Date();
Just build the Date object using the Cal values. Please let me know if that helps.
Solution 2
Try using a date formatter and set the time zone to UTC.
dateFormatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Lucas Jota
Updated on June 12, 2022Comments
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Lucas Jota about 2 years
I'm trying to get an instance of Date with UTC time using the following code:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); Date now = cal.getTime();
that looks so simple, but if I check the values at IntelliJ's debugger, I get different dates for
cal
andnow
:cal
:java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1405690214219,areFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=GMT,firstDayOfWeek=2,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=4,ERA=1,YEAR=2014,MONTH=6,WEEK_OF_YEAR=29,WEEK_OF_MONTH=3,DAY_OF_MONTH=18,DAY_OF_YEAR=199,DAY_OF_WEEK=6,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=3,AM_PM=1,HOUR=1,HOUR_OF_DAY=13,MINUTE=30,SECOND=14,MILLISECOND=219,ZONE_OFFSET=0,DST_OFFSET=0]now
:Fri Jul 18 10:30:14 BRT 2014as you can see,
cal
is 3 hours ahead ofnow
... what am I doing wrong?Thanks in advance.
[EDIT] Looks like
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
before the code above does the job... -
Lucas Jota almost 10 yearsOk, I saw a few answers like this. Your code works, but I want an instance of date, and not to print it. If I try something like
Date now = simpleDateFormat.parse(calendar.getTime().toString());
I get a ParseException... see stackoverflow.com/questions/23914287/… -
Lucas Jota almost 10 yearsCan you show me the proper way to use
dateFormatter.parse()
? I'm looking for a Date instance, not a String...