如果你想避免解析日期，只是想要一个GMT的时间戳，你可以使用:

final Date gmt = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()
            - Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone()
                    .getOffset(System.currentTimeMillis()));

日历aGMTCalendar = Calendar. getinstance (TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT")); 然后，使用aGMTCalendar对象执行的所有操作都将使用GMT时区完成，并且不会应用夏令时或固定偏移量

错了!

Calendar aGMTCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
aGMTCalendar.getTime(); //or getTimeInMillis()

and

Calendar aNotGMTCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-2"));aNotGMTCalendar.getTime();

会在同一时间回来。同上的对

new Date(); //it's not GMT.

这肯定会返回UTC时间:作为字符串和日期对象!

static final String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

public static Date getUTCdatetimeAsDate() {
    // note: doesn't check for null
    return stringDateToDate(getUTCdatetimeAsString());
}

public static String getUTCdatetimeAsString() {
    final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
    sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
    final String utcTime = sdf.format(new Date());

    return utcTime;
}

public static Date stringDateToDate(String StrDate) {
    Date dateToReturn = null;
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATEFORMAT);

    try {
        dateToReturn = (Date)dateFormat.parse(StrDate);
    }
    catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return dateToReturn;
}

以特定时区和特定格式呈现系统时间的示例代码。

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class TimZoneTest {
    public static void main (String[] args){
        //<GMT><+/-><hour>:<minutes>
        // Any screw up in this format, timezone defaults to GMT QUIETLY. So test your format a few times.

        System.out.println(my_time_in("GMT-5:00", "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss") );
        System.out.println(my_time_in("GMT+5:30", "'at' HH:mm a z 'on' MM/dd/yyyy"));

        System.out.println("---------------------------------------------");
        // Alternate format 
        System.out.println(my_time_in("America/Los_Angeles", "'at' HH:mm a z 'on' MM/dd/yyyy") );
        System.out.println(my_time_in("America/Buenos_Aires", "'at' HH:mm a z 'on' MM/dd/yyyy") );


    }

    public static String my_time_in(String target_time_zone, String format){
        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone(target_time_zone);
        Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
        SimpleDateFormat date_format_gmt = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
        date_format_gmt.setTimeZone(tz);
        return date_format_gmt.format(date);
    }

}

输出

10/08/2011 21:07:21
at 07:37 AM GMT+05:30 on 10/09/2011
at 19:07 PM PDT on 10/08/2011
at 23:07 PM ART on 10/08/2011

这里还有一个获取GMT时间戳对象的建议:

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Calendar;

...

private static Timestamp getGMT() {
   Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
   return new Timestamp(cal.getTimeInMillis()
                       -cal.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET)
                       -cal.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET));
}

你可以使用:

Calendar aGMTCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

然后，使用aGMTCalendar对象执行的所有操作都将使用GMT时区完成，并且不会应用夏令时或固定偏移量。我认为之前的帖子是正确的，Date()对象总是返回GMT，直到你对Date对象做一些事情，它才被转换为本地时区。