UTC Dates

Hello.
I already search by this topic in the forum searh engine , and i have found a lot of issues related with this topic but none of these have clarified me.
I read that when you create a Date object like this away Date d = new Date(); , that will contain the date in UTC(number of miliseconds since 01/01/1970), but when i simple
do System.out.println(d) this will print the date in my local machine timezone.
How can I hava a Date object with the UTC time ?
Thanks

PedroCosta wrote:
Hello.
I already search by this topic in the forum searh engine , and i have found a lot of issues related with this topic but none of these have clarified me.
I read that when you create a Date object like this away Date d = new Date(); , that will contain the date in UTC(number of miliseconds since 01/01/1970), but when i simple
do System.out.println(d) this will print the date in my local machine timezone.
How can I hava a Date object with the UTC time ?
As you have stated, Date objects only have a UTC time! Do you mean that you want a String representation in UTC time zone? If so then use SimpleDateFormat and set the time zone to UTC.

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Hi,
I am trying to convert string (MM/dd/yyyy format) to UTC date time and store in the database.
This is what I did:
String dateAsString = "10/01/2007";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
formatter.setLenient(false);
java.util.date dateValue = formatter.parse(dateAsString, new ParsePosition(0));
dateValue will be Sun Sep 30 20:00:00 EDT 2007 in UTC.
Now I need to store this date and time to MS SQL database.
I used the following code:
java.sql.Date sqlDateValue = new java.sql.Date(parsedToDate.getTime());
But this code give only the date, not time 2007-09-30
Can anybody tell me how I can change this java date to sql date (or datetime?) so that I can get both date and time.
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semaj

semaj07 wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to convert string (MM/dd/yyyy format) to UTC date time and store in the database.
This is what I did:
String dateAsString = "10/01/2007";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
formatter.setLenient(false);
java.util.date dateValue = formatter.parse(dateAsString, new ParsePosition(0));
dateValue will be Sun Sep 30 20:00:00 EDT 2007 in UTC.
Now I need to store this date and time to MS SQL database.
I used the following code:
java.sql.Date sqlDateValue = new java.sql.Date(parsedToDate.getTime());
But this code give only the date, not time 2007-09-30
Can anybody tell me how I can change this java date to sql date (or datetime?) so that I can get both date and time.
Thanks,
semajTake a look at java.sql.Timestamp:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/Timestamp.html
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-(NSString *)getUTCFormateDate:(NSDate *)localDate
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Message was edited by: xmax
Message was edited by: xmax

xmax wrote:
I am using following function to convert NSDate in "UTC" date.
-(NSString *)getUTCFormateDate:(NSDate *)localDate
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:timeZone];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:localDate];
return dateString;
Can anyone tell me what is problem with function.
Try changing the year formatting arguments to "yyyy". "YYYY" means something else besides the year: Year (of "Week of Year"), used in ISO year-week calendar. May differ from calendar year.
See the Unicode docs for an explanation.
charlie

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Is this in regards to MAC Icals?
If so, you may be better served to resolve this thread and
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You would get much more specific answers there.
I have attached what I could find on the subject.
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http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05175&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
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I have this problem.
The user should provide the following inputs:
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I need as output, the UTC date time value:
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