Get Current Date and Time in a Specific Timezone (Java)


		Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));
		DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
		df.setTimeZone(cal.getTimeZone());

		System.out.println("The date and time in the specific timezone: " + cal.getTimeZone().getID());
		System.out.println(df.format(cal.getTime()));
				
		System.out.println("\nThe date and time in the system time zone: " + Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getID());
		df.setTimeZone(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone());
		System.out.println(df.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()));

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

df.setTimeZone(cal.getTimeZone());

System.out.println("The date and time in the specific timezone: " + cal.getTimeZone().getID());

System.out.println(df.format(cal.getTime()));

System.out.println("\nThe date and time in the system time zone: " + Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getID());

df.setTimeZone(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone());

System.out.println(df.format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime()));

Output:


The date and time in the specific timezone: America/New_York
Fri 2016-04-29 17:34:15

The date and time in the system time zone: America/Los_Angeles
Fri 2016-04-29 14:34:15