How can I get the time in GMT using GWT?

Question

I want to get the current time of the machine in GMT and presented it on custom format like this one using GWT:

 yyyyMMddHHmmss

How I can achieve that?

I've tried this, but I didn't find how can I present this local time in GMT:

Date date = new Date();
DateTimeFormat dtf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
System.err.println(dtf.format(date).toString());

Also note that the Date.getTimezoneOffset() is deprecated, which I could use to subtract it from the current date and format it afterwards, but it doesn't sound like a good plan.

Isn't GWT using some unix standard or ISO standard? What have you tried? You know about FormatDateTime... Try it. — Warren P, Mar 22 '11 at 12:43
@Warren P I updated my question.. but can you be more specific..? — Lipis, Mar 22 '11 at 13:09

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '11 at 15:06

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Date date = new Date();
DateTimeFormat dtf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
Window.alert(dtf.format(date, TimeZone.createTimeZone(0)));

You need to import com.google.gwt.i18n.client.TimeZone and not java.util.TimeZone.

answered Mar 22 '11 at 15:06

Chris Boesing

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How can I get the time in GMT using GWT?

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