Date and time conversion to some other Timezone in java

Question

i have written this code to convert the current system date and time to some other timezone. I am not getting any error but i am not getting my output as expected. Like if i

Answer 1

Your mistake is to call parse instead of format.

You call parse to parse a Date from a String, but in your case you've got a Date and need to format it using the correct Timezone.

Replace your code with

Calendar currentdate = Calendar.getInstance();
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
TimeZone obj = TimeZone.getTimeZone("CST");
formatter.setTimeZone(obj);
System.out.println("Local:: " +currentdate.getTime());
System.out.println("CST:: "+ formatter.format(currentdate.getTime()));

and I hope you'll get the output you are expecting.