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

I fixed this with this converter

public class DateTimeConverter implements AttributeConverter {
    @Override
    public Date convertToDatabaseColumn(DateTime attribute) {
        return attribute == null ? null
                : new Date(attribute
                        .withZone(DateTimeZone.UTC)
                        .withZoneRetainFields(DateTimeZone.getDefault())
                        .getMillis());
    }

    @Override
    public DateTime convertToEntityAttribute(Date dbData) {
        return dbData == null ? null
               : new DateTime(dbData.getTime())
                        .withZoneRetainFields(DateTimeZone.UTC)
                        .withZone(DateTimeZone.getDefault());
    }
}

Dates are stored as UTC and recovered with your current time zone