Question

I get a string with a millisecond and a timezone like this “1353913216000+0000”, so a UTC time basically. How can I convert this to my local time? I do not think i can use a DateFormat, there is no millisecond pattern.

Answer 1

you can use the class Calendar

    Calendar c= Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+2"));
    c.setTime(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));


    System.out.println(new Date(c.getTimeInMillis()+TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+2").getOffset(c.getTimeInMillis())));