Groovy date format for UTC with milliseconds

Question

I\'m having trouble finding a good way of formatting a UTC-time stamp with this format: yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss.

I wasn\'t able

Answer 1

Use yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss.SSS

This will get you milliseconds as well.

Test Code:

def now = new Date()
println now.format("yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss.SSS", TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))

Answer 2

I would convert it like that:

def now = new Date()
println now.format("YYYYMMdd-HH:mm:ss") 

Answer 3

You can try this:

TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC')
Date date = new Date()
String newdate = date.format("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.Ms")
log.info newdate