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Get current time in a given timezone : android


I am new to Android and I am currently facing an issue to get current time given the timezone.

I get timezone in the format "GMT-7" i.e. string. and I have the system time.

Is there a clean way to get the current time in the above given timezone? Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

edit : Trying to do this :

public String getTime(String timezone) {
    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    c.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timezone));
    Date date = c.getTime();
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    String strDate = df.format(date);
    return c.getTime().toString();
}

Solution

  • I got it to work like this :

    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+05:30");
    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
    String time = String.format("%02d" , c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY))+":"+
                String.format("%02d" , c.get(Calendar.MINUTE))+":"+
    .                   String.format("%02d" , c.get(Calendar.SECOND))+":"+
        .           String.format("%03d" , c.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
    

    Also, every other time conversion based on this date should also be used with this timezone, otherwise, the default timezone of device will be used and the time will be converted based on that timezone.