Convert UTC to current locale time

Question

I am downloading some JSON data from a webservice. In this JSON I've got some Date/Time values. Everything in UTC. How can I parse this date string so the result Date object is in the current locale?

For example: the Server returned "2011-05-18 16:35:01" and my device should now display "2011-05-18 18:35:01" (GMT +2)

My current code:

 SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); Date myDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(rawQuestion.getString("AskDateTime")); 

Answer 1

It has a set timezone method:

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")); Date myDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(rawQuestion.getString("AskDateTime")); 

all done!

Answer 2

So you want to inform SimpleDateFormat of UTC time zone:

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); TimeZone utcZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"); simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(utcZone); Date myDate = simpleDateFormat.parse(rawQuestion.getString("AskDateTime")); 

To display:

simpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); String formattedDate = simpleDateFormat.format(myDate);