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

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" );
    // or SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat( "MM/dd/yyyy KK:mm:ss a Z" );
    sdf.setTimeZone( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "UTC" ) );
    System.out.println( sdf.format( new Date() ) 

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Instead of System.out.println( sdf.format( new Date() ) put your local date