Get Today's date in Java at midnight time

Question

I need to create two date objects. If the current date and time is March 9th 2012 11:30 AM then

• date object d1 should be 9th March 20

Answer 1

Here is a Java 8 way to get UTC Midnight in millis

ZonedDateTime utcTime = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC);
long todayMidnight = utcTime.toLocalDate().atStartOfDay().toEpochSecond(ZoneOffset.UTC) * 1000;