Question

I am trying to get a calendar object set to GMT, but the getTime() always returns the time in GMT+1 (my current time). I have tried:

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("skeniver"));

They all apparently return GMT, because

cal.getTimeZone().getDisplayName()

returns “GMT+00:00”; but

cal.getTime().toString();

always displays the time in GMT+1.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

If you want to in string then prefer the DateFormat or SimpleDateFormat for this

here is example

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(); // here you can also define your format of date for e.g. "dd/MM/yyyy z"

sdf.setTimeZone("GMT");

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(sdf.format(cal.getTime()));