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

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatGmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss");
dateFormatGmt.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

//Local time zone   
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatLocal = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss");

//Time in GMT
return dateFormatLocal.parse( dateFormatGmt.format(new Date()) );

当前UTC日期

Instant.now().toString().replaceAll("T.*", "");

简单来说。一个日历对象存储关于时区的信息，但是当你执行cal.getTime()时，时区信息将会丢失。所以对于时区转换，我建议使用DateFormat类…

此代码打印当前UTC时间。

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


public class Test
{
    public static void main(final String[] args) throws ParseException
    {
        final SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
        f.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        System.out.println(f.format(new Date()));
    }
}

结果

2013-10-26 14:37:48 UTC