When is 7pm gmt

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Eric Leschinski k 86 86 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It's GMT already.

FYI, the terribly troublesome old date-time classes such as java. Date , java. Calendar , and java. SimpleDateFormat are now legacy , supplanted by the java.

See Tutorial by Oracle. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Edwin Buck Edwin Buck Date has a getTime method which does the same thing for an arbitrary Date. You might need to use a java. Calendar to construct the Date object depending on your needs, if so Calendar's getTime method will return a Date which you can then getTime to get the milliseconds offset.

Harun Harun 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I tried a couple of options to achieve this but only your solution works perfectly — Sankalp. One issue with this approach is that it doesn't change the timezone when the time is serialized. UTC ;. Damilola Damilola 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. The troublesome old date-time classes are now legacy, supplanted by the java. Instant The Instant class represents a moment on the timeline in UTC with a resolution of nanoseconds up to nine 9 digits of a decimal fraction.

Where to obtain the java. Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation. Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes. See How to use…. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Basil Bourque Basil Bourque k 75 75 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Peter Lawrey Peter Lawrey k 73 73 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. JavaEnthusiast ideone.

All of these give me my local timezone, which is not GMT. Forseth11 That is not correct. They are all GMT unless your system clock has been set incorrectly. PeterLawrey My bad. I was using a date format put in my local timezone to display the time. Boern 5, 4 4 gold badges 47 47 silver badges 71 71 bronze badges.

Firdous Ahmad Firdous Ahmad 31 6 6 bronze badges. But the date is always is interpreted in my local time zone. You can with java. UTC ; System. Links Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java. Ole V. You can achieve it using Java 8 java.

Gaurav Kukade Gaurav Kukade 35 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. This is pretty simple and straight forward. Divyesh Kanzariya 3, 3 3 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. Drunken Daddy Drunken Daddy 6, 12 12 gold badges 59 59 silver badges 92 92 bronze badges. The Time Now provides accurate US network of cesium clocks synchronized time and accurate time services around the world. This page is designed to provide you with up-to-date clocks that accurately portray the difference between Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time at the current moment in the day.

We also provide you with a chart the showcases conversions for each hour across both zones to help you quickly convert any and all times you may need. During the winter and spring months, the standard Eastern zone is observed on the east coast of America, but during the summer months, it changes to EDT to observe the time change. The Atlantic ocean separates these two time zones. The former is UTC while the latter is UTC , it is where the prime meridian is located and represents the zero-point from which the other zones are drawn.

M in Eastern Standard Time, then it will be 5 A. M in Greenwich Mean Time. During the summer months, the time change results in a four hour difference between the two since the Eastern zone moves an hour forward in the spring. Geographically, this is located on the Eastern coast of the North American continent, but it also extends down into the Caribbean and up into Canada. On a global map, the Greenwich time zone is located at zero degree longitude and the Eastern time zone is located at 75 degrees west.

There is a great deal of history in this part of the world. For example, the original thirteen colonies of the United States were all located within this zone on the east coast of the continent. It was this colonies that would go on to wage war against the British to gain independence and bring about the nation that occupies this continent today. The range of climate within the locations here is staggering. It is classified as a temperate humid climate that enjoys hot summers and winters that range from cool to very cold.

The southern location have a tropical climate that makes them major tourist destinations, while the northern areas have major cities and significant snowfall. Yet another area rife with historical significance, this time zone represents the place where the concept was born.

It was based on the solar time established at the Greenwich Royal Observatory.