Android get Current UTC time

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xger86x picture xger86x · May 12, 2010 · Viewed 122.2k times · Source

What is the function to get the current UTC time. I have tried with System.getCurrentTime but i get the current date and time of the device.

Thanks

Answer

Josef Pfleger picture Josef Pfleger · May 12, 2010

System.currentTimeMillis() does give you the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. The reason you see local times might be because you convert a Date instance to a string before using it. You can use DateFormats to convert Dates to Strings in any timezone:

DateFormat df = DateFormat.getTimeInstance();
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("gmt"));
String gmtTime = df.format(new Date());

Also see this related question.

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