Conversion of local time zone to GMT in java

Question

Am trying convert date which is in local time zone to GMT, i did some thing like this

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(\"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss\");         


        

Answer 1

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
public class CurrentTimeToGMT{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    Date date = new Date();
    DateFormat gmtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat();
    TimeZone gmtTime = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
    gmtFormat.setTimeZone(gmtTime);
    System.out.println("Current Time: "+date);
    System.out.println("GMT Time: " + gmtFormat.format(date));

  }
}

Output

Current Time: Wed Mar 10 11:21:18 IST 2010

GMT Time: 3/10/10 5:51 AM