Get Date Object In UTC format in Java

Question

I have written following code. I want to get Date object in UTC format.

I am able to get expected date string in UTC using SimpleDateFormat. But using same SimpleDateFormat object, I am not able to get object in UTC format. It is returning object with IST format.

After searching, I found that Date object doesn't store timestamp info.

How can I get date object in UTC format ?

import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.TimeZone;  public class dddd {      /**      * @param args      */     public static void main(String[] args) {         System.out.println("Input - "+1393572325000L);         DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");         formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));         Date date= new Date(1393572325000L);           String dateString = formatter.format(date);          System.out.println("Converted UTC TIME (using Format method) : "+dateString);          Date date2 =null;         try {             date2 = formatter.parse(dateString);         } catch (ParseException e) {             e.printStackTrace();         }           System.out.println("Parsed Date Object (using Parse method) : "+date2);          System.out.println("Expected Date Object : Fri Feb 28 07:25:25 UTC 2014");      }  } 

This prints following output :

Input - 1393572325000 Converted UTC TIME (using Format method) : 2014-02-28 07:25:25 Parsed Date Object (using Parse method) : Fri Feb 28 12:55:25 IST 2014 Expected Date Object : Fri Feb 28 07:25:25 UTC 2014 

Answer 1

final Date currentTime = new Date(); final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss a z"); sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")); System.out.println("UTC time: " + sdf.format(currentTime));