Convert a date and time string according to UTC format

Question

I am having a date string 2012-11-21 13:11:25 which I get from local database. I have to convert this according to UTC settings and display it on a particular screen. So if its GMT+05:30 it should be displayed as 2012-11-21 18:41:25 on the screen. How can I do this conversion. I have checked some of the questions but that didn't work out.

I am able to get a Date object that returns something like Wed Nov 21 13:11:25 GMT+05:30 2012 after this I need to get the time as 18:41:25 and date as 11-21-2012

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Your df and inputFmt must use the same format.

But I think you should do it like this:

    Date myDate = new Date();

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
    calendar.setTime(myDate);
    Date time = calendar.getTime();
    SimpleDateFormat outputFmt = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyy h:mm a zz");
    String dateAsString = outputFmt.format(time);
    System.out.println(dateAsString);