Convert Date/Time for given Timezone - java

Question

I want to convert this GMT time stamp to GMT+13:

2011-10-06 03:35:05

I have tried about 100 different combinations of DateFormat, TimeZone,

Answer 1

We can get the UTC/GMT time stamp from the given date.

/**
 * Get the time stamp in GMT/UTC by passing the valid time (dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss)
 */
public static long getGMTTimeStampFromDate(String datetime) {
    long timeStamp = 0;
    Date localTime = new Date();

    String format = "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss";
    SimpleDateFormat sdfLocalFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
    sdfLocalFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

    try {

        localTime = (Date) sdfLocalFormat.parse(datetime); 

        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"),
                Locale.getDefault());
        TimeZone tz = cal.getTimeZone();

        cal.setTime(localTime);

        timeStamp = (localTime.getTime()/1000);
        Log.d("GMT TimeStamp: ", " Date TimegmtTime: " + datetime
                + ", GMT TimeStamp : " + localTime.getTime());

    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return timeStamp;

}

It will return the UTC time based on passed date.

• We can do reverse like UTC time stamp to current date and time(vice versa)

      public static String getLocalTimeFromGMT(long gmtTimeStamp) {
               try{
                      Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
                      TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
                      calendar.setTimeInMillis(gmtTimeStamp * 1000);
      //              calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, tz.getOffset(calendar.getTimeInMillis())); 
                      SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
                      Date currenTimeZone = (Date) calendar.getTime();
                      return sdf.format(currenTimeZone);
                  }catch (Exception e) {
                  }
                  return "";  
              }
  

I hope this will help others. Thanks!!