Java SimpleDateFormat get UTC Time String
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import java.util.TimeZone; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { System.out.println(getUTCTimeString()); }/* w w w .j ava2 s . c o m*/ public static String getUTCTimeString() { SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("utc")); return format.format(new Date()); } }