Here you can find the source of formatDate(Calendar time)
public static String formatDate(Calendar time)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w ww .j a va2s.c o m * GeoBatch - Open Source geospatial batch processing system * http://geobatch.geo-solutions.it/ * Copyright (C) 2013 GeoSolutions S.A.S. * http://www.geo-solutions.it * * GPLv3 + Classpath exception * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; import java.util.TimeZone; public class Main { public static String formatDate(Calendar time) { SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy'-'MM'-'dd' 'HH':'mm':'ss'.'SSS"); TimeZone TZ_UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"); formatter.setTimeZone(TZ_UTC); return formatter.format(time.getTime()); } }