How can I get the current date and time in UTC or GMT in Java?

Answer 1

Here is my implementation of toUTC:

    public static Date toUTC(Date date){
    long datems = date.getTime();
    long timezoneoffset = TimeZone.getDefault().getOffset(datems);
    datems -= timezoneoffset;
    return new Date(datems);
}

There's probably several ways to improve it, but it works for me.