When I create a new Date
object, it is initialized to the current time but in the local timezone. How can I get the current date and time in GMT?
Java – How to get the current date and time in UTC or GMT in Java
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Best Answer
java.util.Date
has no specific time zone, although its value is most commonly thought of in relation to UTC. What makes you think it's in local time?To be precise: the value within a
java.util.Date
is the number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch, which occurred at midnight January 1st 1970, UTC. The same epoch could also be described in other time zones, but the traditional description is in terms of UTC. As it's a number of milliseconds since a fixed epoch, the value withinjava.util.Date
is the same around the world at any particular instant, regardless of local time zone.I suspect the problem is that you're displaying it via an instance of Calendar which uses the local timezone, or possibly using
Date.toString()
which also uses the local timezone, or aSimpleDateFormat
instance, which, by default, also uses local timezone.If this isn't the problem, please post some sample code.
I would, however, recommend that you use Joda-Time anyway, which offers a much clearer API.