I have time variable in GMT and I will convert in UTC. I post my code..
long mytime = 1376824500000;
Date date = new Date(mytime);
String time = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm").format(date);
This return "13:15"
in some device, but I would like to have always utc date: "11:15"
. How can I do that? Thank you.
It's not clear what difference you're expecting between UTC and GMT - for the purposes we're talking here, they're equivalent. (They're not quite technically the same, but...)
In terms of formatting , you just need to set the time zone on your formatter:
// TODO: Consider setting a locale explicitly
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
String time = format.format(date);
Try this:
long mytime = 1376824500000;
Date date = new Date(mytime);
SimpleDateFormat formater = = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
formater .setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
String time formater.format(date);
The java.util
Date-Time API and their formatting API, SimpleDateFormat
are outdated and error-prone. It is recommended to stop using them completely and switch to the modern Date-Time API * .
Solution using java.time
, the modern Date-Time API:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.OffsetTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli(1_376_824_500_000L);
OffsetDateTime odtUtc = instant.atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC);
LocalTime time = odtUtc.toLocalTime();
System.out.println(time);
// If you want the time with timezone offset
OffsetTime ot = odtUtc.toOffsetTime();
System.out.println(ot);
}
}
Output:
11:15
11:15Z
The Z
in the output is the timezone designator for zero-timezone offset. It stands for Zulu and specifies the Etc/UTC
timezone (which has the timezone offset of +00:00
hours).
Learn more about the modern Date-Time API from Trail: Date Time .
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project .
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