I am pretty new to Java and I am a little stuck with using SimpleDateFormat and Calendar. I have a Date-Object and want to extract a GMT datestring like yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. I live in Germany and at the moment we are GMT +0200. My Date-Object's time is for example 2011-07-18 13:00:00. What I need now is 2011-07-18 11:00:00. The offset for my timezone should be calculated automatically.
I tried something like this, but I guess there is a fault somewhere:
private String toGmtString(Date date){
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault();
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(new SimpleTimeZone(timeZone.getOffset(date.getTime()), "GMT"));
sd.setCalendar(cal);
return sd.format(date);
}
On some devices the datestring is returned like I want it to. On other devices the offset isn't calculated right and I receive the date and time from the input date-object. Can you give me some tips or advices? I guess my way off getting the default timezone does not work?
private String toGmtString(Date date){
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sd.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
return sd.format(date);
}
You don't need to create a new SimpleTimeZone, because you aren't inventing a new timezone - there are 2 existing timezones that come into play in your program, GMT and your default one.
You also don't need to modify your existing date object, because you don't want to represent a different point in time - you only want a different way to display the same point in time.
All you need to do is tell the SimpleDateFormat which timezone to use in formatting.
private String toGmtString(Date date){
//date formatter
SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
//getting default timeZone
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault();
//getting current time
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance()
cal.setTime(date) ;
//adding / substracting curren't timezone's offset
cal.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, -1 * timeZone.getRawOffset());
//formatting and returning string of date
return sd.format(cal.getTime());
}
java.time
Using java.time, the modern date-time API, there are many ways to do it:
Parse to LocalDateTime ➡️ Combine it with your timezone to get ZonedDateTime ➡️ Convert to Instant ➡️ Convert to ZonedDateTime using Instant#atZone and UTC timezone.
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2011-07-18 13:00:00";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
Instant instant = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin")).toInstant();
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = instant.atZone(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 2011-07-18 11:00:00
}
}
Parse to LocalDateTime ➡️ Combine it with your timezone to get ZonedDateTime ➡️ Convert to Instant ➡️ Convert to ZonedDateTime using ZonedDateTime#ofInstant and UTC timezone.
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2011-07-18 13:00:00";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
Instant instant = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin")).toInstant();
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(instant, ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 2011-07-18 11:00:00
}
}
Using ZonedDateTime#withZoneSameInstant:
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2011-07-18 13:00:00";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
ZonedDateTime zdtPak = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin"));
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = zdtPak.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 2011-07-18 11:00:00
}
}
Using DateTimeFormatter#withZone and ZonedDateTime#withZoneSameInstant:
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2011-07-18 13:00:00";
// Using ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
DateTimeFormatter dtfInput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("u-M-d H:m:s", Locale.ENGLISH)
.withZone(ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin"));
ZonedDateTime zdtPak = ZonedDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtfInput);
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = zdtPak.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
DateTimeFormatter dtfOutput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH);
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtfOutput)); // 2011-07-18 11:00:00
}
}
Learn more about the modern date-time API* from Trail: Date Time.
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.
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I am reading data from upstream system and it returns the date in string format like this,
String dateFromUpstream = 11-14-2022 10:41:12 EDT
Now, I want to convert this string to a date format of UTC timezone and then store it into my entity.
I tried the following way,
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
LocalDateTime date = ZonedDateTime.parse(dateFromUpstream, formatter).toLocalDateTime().atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC"));
But this doesn't change the date to UTC timezone. It still gives me the same date with UTC instead of EDT at the end of the string.
Anyone know how I can do this and then store into an entity?
Parse the given date-time string into a ZonedDateTime with the corresponding DateTimeFormatter and then convert the resulting ZonedDateTime into an Instant or another ZonedDateTime corresponding to UTC, using ZonedDateTime#withZoneSameInstant.
Demo:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String dateFromUpstream = "11-14-2022 10:41:12 EDT";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu HH:mm:ss z", Locale.ENGLISH);
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse(dateFromUpstream, dtf);
Instant instant = zdt.toInstant();
System.out.println(instant);
// Or get a ZonedDateTime at UTC
ZonedDateTime zdtUTC = zdt.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);
System.out.println(zdtUTC);
// If you want LocalDateTime
LocalDateTime ldt = zdtUTC.toLocalDateTime();
System.out.println(ldt);
}
}
See this code run at Ideone.com.
Output:
2022-11-14T15:41:12Z
2022-11-14T15:41:12Z
2022-11-14T15:41:12
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Note: As suggested by Basil Bourque, you can convert the parsed date-time into an OffsetDateTime at UTC as shown below:
OffsetDateTime odtUTC = zdt.toOffsetDateTime()
.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC);
"2021-09-17 11:48:06 UTC"
I want to parse the following string and create a LocalDateTime object or an Instant
I know you can write something like this
String dateTime = "2021-09-17 11:48:06 UTC";
LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.parse(dateTime,DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
How do I deal with the UTC part in the string?
Never hardcode the standard timezone text like UTC, GMT etc.
Never hardcode the standard timezone text like UTC, GMT etc. which DateTimeFormatter is already capable of handling in the best way.
Parse the given Date-Time string using the pattern, uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss VV into a TemporalAccessor from which you can get the Instant as well as the LocalDateTime.
Demo:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.temporal.TemporalAccessor;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2021-09-17 11:48:06 UTC";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss VV", Locale.ENGLISH);
TemporalAccessor temporalAccessor = dtf.parse(strDateTime);
Instant instant = Instant.from(temporalAccessor);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.from(temporalAccessor);
System.out.println(instant);
System.out.println(ldt);
}
}
Output:
2021-09-17T11:48:06Z
2021-09-17T11:48:06
ONLINE DEMO
Alternatively:
Parse the given Date-Time string using the pattern, uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss VV into a ZonedDateTime from which you can get the Instant as well as the LocalDateTime.
Demo:
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "2021-09-17 11:48:06 UTC";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss VV", Locale.ENGLISH);
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
Instant instant = Instant.from(zdt);
LocalDateTime ldt = zdt.toLocalDateTime();
System.out.println(zdt);
System.out.println(instant);
System.out.println(ldt);
}
}
Output:
2021-09-17T11:48:06Z[UTC]
2021-09-17T11:48:06Z
2021-09-17T11:48:06
ONLINE DEMO
Learn more about the modern Date-Time API* from Trail: Date Time.
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.
"2021-09-17 11:48:06 UTC" isn't a local date time: it's a date time, because it has a time zone. And because your time has a time zone, it doesn't match your pattern, which doesn't.
If your time strings always end with exactly "UTC", you can make that a literal in the pattern:
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss 'UTC'");
If you need to handle other time zones than UTC, you can use z:
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
but note that this is for parsing a zoned date time; from that, you can extract the local date time:
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse(dateTime,DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
LocalDateTime ldt =z dt.toLocalDateTime();
Given:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String dateString = "2018-07-30T13:36:17.820";
DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter
.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.parse(dateString, DATE_TIME_FORMATTER);
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = date.atStartOfDay((ZoneOffset.UTC));
System.out.println(zonedDateTime);
}
And output:
2018-07-30T00:00Z
...what is the pattern to print seconds? Stupid question no doubt but driving me a little nuts
I need:
2018-07-30T00:00:00Z
I changed java.time.LocalDate to java.time.LocalDateTime, you need it if you want to show also the seconds.
package com.test;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
public class DateFormatter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String dateString = "2018-07-30T13:36:17.820";
DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter
.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString, DATE_TIME_FORMATTER);
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = date.atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
System.out.println(zonedDateTime);
}
}
Output is:
2018-07-30T13:36:17.820Z
LocalDate will keep just date. You need to parse LocalDateTime and convert to ZonedDateTime and you will have seconds as you expect.
var dateString = "2018-07-30T13:36:17.820";
var format = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
var localDate = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString, format);
var zone = ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal" );
var zonedDateTime = localDate.atZone(zone);
System.out.println(zonedDateTime);
You will have to go a few steps:
parse the String to a LocalDateTime because it contains date and time of day
extract the date only
create a ZonedDateTime out of that by adding the start of day (LocalTime.MIN = 00:00:00) and a ZoneOffset.UTC
This code may do:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String dateString = "2018-07-30T13:36:17.820";
// parse a LocalDateTime
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString);
// extract the date part
LocalDate localDate = localDateTime.toLocalDate();
// make it a ZonedDateTime by applying a ZoneId
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = ZonedDateTime.of(localDate, LocalTime.MIN, ZoneOffset.UTC);
// print the result
System.out.println(zonedDateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME));
}
Output is
2018-07-30T00:00:00Z
There are several ways to do it, this is just one of them and it just slightly differs from most of the other answers (and comments :-) ).
tl;dr
You have used the wrong things in the wrong places.
You do not need a DateTimeFormatter explicitly in order to parse 2018-07-30T13:36:17.820 because it's already in ISO 8601 format which is also the default format used by LocalDateTime#parse. Moreover, this string has date and time instead of just date; therefore, it makes more sense to parse it into LocalDateTime instead of LocalDate. You can always get LocalDate from LocalDateTime using LocalDateTime#toLocalDate.
The ZonedDateTime#toString uses the LocalDateTime#toString which in turn uses LocalTime#toString for the time part which omits second and fraction-of-second if they are zero. If you need a string with zero second and fraction-of-second, you will need to use a DateTimeFormatter.
Demo:
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
public class Main {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String dateString = "2018-07-30T13:36:17.820";
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(dateString);// You do not need a DateTimeFormatter here
ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = localDateTime.toLocalDate().atStartOfDay(ZoneOffset.UTC);
// Print zonedDateTime.toString()
System.out.println(zonedDateTime);
// Custom format
final DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS");
System.out.println(DATE_TIME_FORMATTER.format(zonedDateTime));
}
}
Output:
2018-07-30T00:00Z
2018-07-30T00:00:00.000
Learn more about the modern date-time API from Trail: Date Time.
I have a date, assumed to be in GMT, which I want to convert to local time zone using the ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME formatting.
Basically, I want to go from:
2018-03-13 03:00:00.0
to:
2018-03-13T00:00:00-09:00
Obviously this would change, depending on your local time zone.
Any ideas on how I could do this?
You can leverage ZonedDateTime for this. You just need to read in the date as UTC and convert it as needed. You might get something like this:
String readPattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S";
DateTimeFormatter readDateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(readPattern).withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
LocalDateTime utcLocalDateTime = LocalDateTime.parse("2018-03-13 03:00:00.0", readDateTimeFormatter);
ZonedDateTime localZonedDateTime = utcLocalDateTime.atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC).atZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.systemDefault());
String writePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssXXX";
DateTimeFormatter writeDateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(writePattern);
System.out.println(writeDateTimeFormatter.format(localZonedDateTime));
For more info, see:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/ZonedDateTime.html
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html
Parse the date-time string into LocalDateTime:
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("u-M-d H:m:s.S", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse("2018-03-13 03:00:00.0", dtf);
Combine this with UTC offset to create an OffsetDateTime:
OffsetDateTime odtUtc = ldt.atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC);
Create its copy with offset set as -09:00 while keeping the instant same:
OffsetDateTime odtUtcMinus9 = odtUtc.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.of("+09:00"));
Demo:
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("u-M-d H:m:s.S", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse("2018-03-13 03:00:00.0", dtf);
System.out.println(ldt); // 2018-03-13T03:00
OffsetDateTime odtUtc = ldt.atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC);
System.out.println(odtUtc); // 2018-03-13T03:00Z
OffsetDateTime odtUtcMinus9 = odtUtc.withOffsetSameInstant(ZoneOffset.of("+09:00"));
System.out.println(odtUtcMinus9); // 2018-03-13T12:00+09:00
}
}
Note that the timezone offset is a fixed thing i.e. it is independent of the DST. If you are looking for an automatic adjustment of timezone offset as per the DST, use ZonedDateTime. The methods are very much similar to what we have used in the last demo.
Demo:
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("u-M-d H:m:s.S", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse("2018-03-13 03:00:00.0", dtf);
System.out.println(ldt); // 2018-03-13T03:00
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc); // 2018-03-13T03:00Z[Etc/UTC]
ZonedDateTime zdtAmericaAdak = zdtUtc.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("America/Adak"));
System.out.println(zdtAmericaAdak); // 2018-03-12T18:00-09:00[America/Adak]
// A custom format
DateTimeFormatter dtfOutput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("uuuu-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX", Locale.ENGLISH);
String formatted = dtfOutput.format(zdtAmericaAdak);
System.out.println(formatted); // 2018-03-12 18:00:00.000-09:00
}
}
Learn more about java.time, the modern date-time API* from Trail: Date Time.
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.
I am trying to convert date 06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM from default zone to UTC using ZonedDateTime.
LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(date.toInstant(), ZoneId.systemDefault());
ZonedDateTime utc = ZonedDateTime.of(localDateTime, ZoneOffset.UTC);
but utc returns 2015-12-06T14:10:10Z instead of 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM
How can I convert date from default zone to UTC? The answer given here convert current time to UTC.
You can use ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(Instant, ZoneId) where the second parameter is UTC (the instant knows the local offset). Something like,
String source = "06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM";
String pattern = "MM-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss a";
DateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
try {
Date date = sdf.parse(source);
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(date.toInstant(), ZoneId.of("UTC"));
System.out.println(zdt.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern)));
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
And I get (corresponding to my local zone offset)
06-12-2015 06:10:10 PM
06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM in Pakistan = 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM in UTC
There are many ways to do it.
Parse to LocalDateTime ➡️ Combine it with your timezone to get ZonedDateTime ➡️ Convert to Instant ➡️ Convert to ZonedDateTime using Instant#atZone and UTC timezone.
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu hh:mm:ss a", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
Instant instant = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi")).toInstant();
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = instant.atZone(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM
}
}
Parse to LocalDateTime ➡️ Combine it with your timezone to get ZonedDateTime ➡️ Convert to Instant ➡️ Convert to ZonedDateTime using ZonedDateTime#ofInstant and UTC timezone.
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu hh:mm:ss a", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
Instant instant = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi")).toInstant();
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(instant, ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM
}
}
Using ZonedDateTime#withZoneSameInstant:
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu hh:mm:ss a", Locale.ENGLISH);
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtf);
// Using ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
ZonedDateTime zdtPak = ldt.atZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi"));
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = zdtPak.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtf)); // 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM
}
}
Using DateTimeFormatter#withZone and ZonedDateTime#withZoneSameInstant:
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Locale;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String strDateTime = "06-12-2015 02:10:10 PM";
// Using ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi") for the demo. Change it to
// ZoneId.systemDefault()
DateTimeFormatter dtfInput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("M-d-u h:m:s a", Locale.ENGLISH)
.withZone(ZoneId.of("Asia/Karachi"));
ZonedDateTime zdtPak = ZonedDateTime.parse(strDateTime, dtfInput);
ZonedDateTime zdtUtc = zdtPak.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Etc/UTC"));
DateTimeFormatter dtfOutput = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM-dd-uuuu hh:mm:ss a", Locale.ENGLISH);
System.out.println(zdtUtc.format(dtfOutput)); // 06-12-2015 09:10:10 AM
}
}
Learn more about the modern date-time API* from Trail: Date Time.
* For any reason, if you have to stick to Java 6 or Java 7, you can use ThreeTen-Backport which backports most of the java.time functionality to Java 6 & 7. If you are working for an Android project and your Android API level is still not compliant with Java-8, check Java 8+ APIs available through desugaring and How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.