Get Date Object In UTC format in Java

Question

I have written following code. I want to get Date object in UTC format.

I am able to get expected date string in UTC using SimpleDateFormat. But using

Answer 1

You can subtract the time zone difference from now.

final Calendar calendar  = Calendar.getInstance();
final int      utcOffset = calendar.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) + calendar.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);
final long     tempDate  = new Date().getTime();

return new Date(tempDate - utcOffset);