How to get the current date and time of your timezone in Java?

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Date is always UTC-based… or time-zone neutral, depending on how you want to view it. A Date only represents a point in time; it is independent of time zone, just a number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch. There’s no notion of a “local instance of Date.” Use Date in conjunction with Calendar and/or TimeZone.getDefault() to use a “local” time zone. Use TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Madrid") to get the Madrid time zone.

… or use Joda Time, which tends to make the whole thing clearer, IMO. In Joda Time you’d use a DateTime value, which is an instant in time in a particular calendar system and time zone.

In Java 8 you’d use java.time.ZonedDateTime, which is the Java 8 equivalent of Joda Time’s DateTime.

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