How to get the timezone offset in GMT(Like GMT+7:0

Question

I am getting the timezone of a android device using this code

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
String current_Time_Zone = (TimeZone.getTimeZone(tz.getID()).getDisplayName(
                false, TimeZone.SHORT))

But it always return me the timezone like "IST" but i want to get the timezone in GMT like this GMT+7:00.

Answer 1

public static String timeZone()
{
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"), Locale.getDefault());
    String   timeZone = new SimpleDateFormat("Z").format(calendar.getTime());
    return timeZone.substring(0, 3) + ":"+ timeZone.substring(3, 5);
}

returns like +03:30

Answer 2

To get date time with offset like 2019-07-22T13:39:27.397+05:00 Try following Kotlin code:

fun getDateTimeForApiAsString() : String{
    val date = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX", 
                   Locale.getDefault())
    return date.format(Date())
}

Output Formate:

2019-07-22T13:39:27.397+05:00 //for Pakistan

If you want other similar formats replace pattern in SimpleDateFormat as below:

"yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z"  //Output Format: 2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT
"EEE, MMM d, ''yy"  //Output Format:    Wed, Jul 4, '01
"h:mm a"      //Output Format: 12:08 PM
"hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz"   //Output Format:  12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
"K:mm a, z"  //Output Format:   0:08 PM, PDT
"yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa"  //Output Format:    02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM
"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"  //Output Format:  Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
"yyMMddHHmmssZ"  //Output Format:   010704120856-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"  //Output Format:  2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"  //Output Format:    2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00
"YYYY-'W'ww-u"  //Output Format:    2001-W27-3

Answer 3

If someone is looking how to represent the GMT as a float number representing hour offset
(for example "GMT-0530" to -5.5), you can use this:

Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
TimeZone timeZone = calendar.getTimeZone();
int offset = timeZone.getRawOffset();
long hours = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toHours(offset);
float minutes = (float)TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(offset - TimeUnit.HOURS.toMillis(hours)) / MINUTES_IN_HOUR;
float gmt = hours + minutes;

Answer 4

You can do like this:

    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
    int offset = tz.getRawOffset();

    String timeZone = String.format("%s%02d%02d", offset >= 0 ? "+" : "-", offset / 3600000, (offset / 60000) % 60);

Answer 5

Yet another solution to get timezone offset:

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
String current_Time_Zone = getGmtOffsetString(tz.getRawOffset());

public static String getGmtOffsetString(int offsetMillis) {
    int offsetMinutes = offsetMillis / 60000;
    char sign = '+';
    if (offsetMinutes < 0) {
        sign = '-';
        offsetMinutes = -offsetMinutes;
    }
    return String.format("GMT%c%02d:%02d", sign, offsetMinutes/60, offsetMinutes % 60);
}

Answer 6

 TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();  
Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(tz);
int offsetInMillis = tz.getOffset(cal.getTimeInMillis());

String offset = String.format("%02d:%02d", Math.abs(offsetInMillis / 3600000), Math.abs((offsetInMillis / 60000) % 60));
offset = (offsetInMillis >= 0 ? "+" : "-") + offset;