Convert UTC to current locale time

Question

I am downloading some JSON data from a webservice. In this JSON I\'ve got some Date/Time values. Everything in UTC. How can I parse this date string so the result Date objec

Answer 1

A Date object is always a wrapper around milliseconds since epoch 0 in UTC. It does never represent local time.

That means that you need to create a second SimpleDateFormatter that creates a display string that is in local time.

Edit: @Op. Note that the preffered class for date/time-formatting on Android is java.text.DateFormat