JodaTime - how to get current time in UTC

Question

I want to get the current time in UTC. What I do so far is following (just for testing purposes):

    DateTime dt = new DateTime();
    DateTimeZone tz = Dat         


        

Answer 1

From here: http://www.joda.org/joda-time/userguide.html#Changing_TimeZone

// get current moment in default time zone
DateTime dt = new DateTime();
// translate to London local time
DateTime dtLondon = dt.withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/London"));

The resulting value dtLondon has the same absolute millisecond time, but a different set of field values.

You can substitute `Europe/London' for the timezone you want (UTC). See this list of proper time zone names.