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Jonathan Clark
Jonathan Clark

Reputation: 20538

Convert from string to UTC format

I am developing an Android app. In this app I am working with dates.

I need all dates to be in UTC format. I am using this method to convert them:

public Date getConvertedUTCDate(String datetime) {

        Date myDate = null;

        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.US);

        try {

            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

            myDate = dateFormat.parse(datetime);

        } catch (ParseException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        return myDate;

    }

But instead of getting the expected:

Sun Aug 10 14:13:14 UTC 2014

I get it in CEST format

Sun Aug 10 14:13:14 CEST 2014

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Jens
Jens

Reputation: 69450

You only set the TimeZone for the calendar of the parser. Not the TimeZone of the parsed result.

Upvotes: 2

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