Java get UTC time

Question

I want to get the time in UTC time zone. So I wrote the code:

import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.Date;

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Answer 1

ZonedDateTime utc = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC);
final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss a z"); // you can specify format that you want to get
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
System.out.println("UTC time: " + sdf.format(utc));