How to convert ZonedDateTime to Date?

Question

I am trying to set a server agnostic date time in my database and I believe the best practice to do so is to set a UTC DateTime. My db server is Cassandra and the db driver

Answer 1

You can convert ZonedDateTime to an instant, which you can use directly with Date.

Date.from(java.time.ZonedDateTime.now().toInstant());