Force Java timezone as GMT/UTC

Question

I need to force any time related operations to GMT/UTC, regardless the timezone set on the machine. Any convenient way to so in code?

To clarify, I'm using the DB server time for all operations, but it comes out formatted according to local timezone.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Also if you can set JVM timezone this way

System.setProperty("user.timezone", "EST");

or -Duser.timezone=GMT in the JVM args.

Answer 2

Wow. I know this is an ancient thread but all I can say is do not call TimeZone.setDefault() in any user-level code. This always sets the Timezone for the whole JVM and is nearly always a very bad idea. Learn to use the joda.time library or the new DateTime class in Java 8 which is very similar to the joda.time library.

Answer 3

If you would like to get GMT time only with intiger: var currentTime = new Date(); var currentYear ='2010' var currentMonth = 10; var currentDay ='30' var currentHours ='20' var currentMinutes ='20' var currentSeconds ='00' var currentMilliseconds ='00'

currentTime.setFullYear(currentYear);
currentTime.setMonth((currentMonth-1)); //0is January
currentTime.setDate(currentDay);  
currentTime.setHours(currentHours);
currentTime.setMinutes(currentMinutes);
currentTime.setSeconds(currentSeconds);
currentTime.setMilliseconds(currentMilliseconds);

var currentTimezone = currentTime.getTimezoneOffset();
currentTimezone = (currentTimezone/60) * -1;
var gmt ="";
if (currentTimezone !== 0) {
  gmt += currentTimezone > 0 ? ' +' : ' ';
  gmt += currentTimezone;
}
alert(gmt)