I want to get the UTC time for 01/01/2100 in Java to '2100-01-01 00:00:00'. I am getting "2100-01-01 00:08:00". Any idea, how to correct this.
public Date getFinalTime() {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date finalTime = null;
try
{
finalTime = df.parse("01/01/2100");
} catch (ParseException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
calendar.setTime(finalTime);
return calendar.getTime();
}
解决方案
You need to specify the time zone for the SimpleDateFormat as well - currently that's parsing midnight local time which is ending up as 8am UTC.
TimeZone utc = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(utc);
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
df.setTimeZone(utc);
Date finalTime = null;
try
{
finalTime = df.parse("01/01/2100");
} catch (ParseException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
calendar.setTime(finalTime);
As ever though, I would personally recommend using Joda Time which is far more capable in general. I'd be happy to translate your example into Joda Time if you want.
Additionally, I see you're returning calendar.getTime() - that's just the same as returning finalTime as soon as you've computed it.
Finally, just catching a ParseException and carrying on as if it didn't happen is a very bad idea. I'm hoping this is just sample code and it doesn't reflect your real method. Likewise I'm assuming that really you'll be parsing some other text - if you're not, then as Eyal said, you should just call methods on Calendar directly. (Or, again, use Joda Time.)