Java UTC Date nowInUTC()

Description

Get the current time in UTC

License

Open Source License

Return

The current time in UTC

Declaration

public static String nowInUTC() 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from  www .j  av  a2  s  .  c o m*/
  * Copyright (c) 2009 University of Rochester
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT/X11 license. The text of the  
  * license can be found at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php and copy of the license can be found on the project
  * website http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/. 
  *
  */

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Get the current time in UTC
     * @return The current time in UTC
     */
    public static String nowInUTC() {
        Date date = new Date();
        SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
        return df.format(date);
    }
}

Related

1. getUtcTimestamp()
2. getUtcTimestamp()
3. getUTCTimestamp(Date date)
4. getUtcTimestampAsString(Date date)
5. getUTCTimeString4Digits(Date date)
6. nowUtc(String pattern)
7. nowUTCString()
8. SerializeUtc(Date dt)
9. stringToUTC(String utc)