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EDIT: Okay, so you don’t want your local time (which isn’t Australia) to contribute to the result, but instead the Australian time zone. Your existing code should be absolutely fine then, although Sydney is currently UTC+11, not UTC+10.. Short but complete test app:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        Date date = new Date(1318386508000L);
        DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
        format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));
        String formatted = format.format(date);
        System.out.println(formatted);
        format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Australia/Sydney"));
        formatted = format.format(date);
        System.out.println(formatted);
    }
}

Output:

12/10/2011 02:28:28
12/10/2011 13:28:28

I would also suggest you start using Joda Time which is simply a much nicer date/time API…

EDIT: Note that if your system doesn’t know about the Australia/Sydney time zone, it would show UTC. For example, if I change the code about to use TimeZone.getTimeZone("blah/blah") it will show the UTC value twice. I suggest you print TimeZone.getTimeZone("Australia/Sydney").getDisplayName() and see what it says… and check your code for typos too 🙂

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