How can I get the time in GMT using GWT?

gwt timestamp datetime-format gmt
Lipis picture Lipis · Mar 22, 2011 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

I want to get the current time of the machine in GMT and presented it on custom format like this one using GWT: 

 yyyyMMddHHmmss

How I can achieve that?

I've tried this, but I didn't find how can I present this local time in GMT:

Date date = new Date();
DateTimeFormat dtf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
System.err.println(dtf.format(date).toString());

Also note that the Date.getTimezoneOffset() is deprecated, which I could use to subtract it from the current date and format it afterwards, but it doesn't sound like a good plan.

Answer

Chris Boesing picture Chris Boesing · Mar 22, 2011 
Date date = new Date();
DateTimeFormat dtf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
Window.alert(dtf.format(date, TimeZone.createTimeZone(0)));

You need to import com.google.gwt.i18n.client.TimeZone and not java.util.TimeZone.

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