Using Joda time to get current wall time for a given Time Zone

Question

The requirement is to simply to get the current wall time (including the correct DST adjustment) for a given Time Zone.

There seems to be a few questi

Answer 1

Cleanest Method

I find the following to be the cleanest method.

DateTime currentTime = DateTime.now( DateTimeZone.UTC );

This gets you the current time in UTC but this value can be converted to another DateTimeZone or you can replace DateTimeZone.UTC with a different DateTimeZone.

Using the System TimeZone

If you want to set it to the system timezone, you can use this:

DateTime currentTime = DateTime.now( DateTimeZone.getDefault() );

Answer 2

Have you looked at the DateTime constructor:

DateTime(DateTimeZone zone) 

This constructs a DateTime representing the current time in the specified timezone.

Answer 3

How about:

DateTime utc = new DateTime(DateTimeZone.UTC);
DateTimeZone tz = DateTimeZone.forID("America/Los_Angeles");
DateTime losAngelesDateTime = utc.toDateTime(tz);