Java – convert timestamp to UTC time zone

public static long getCurrentEpochTimeStamp(String timeStamp) throws Exception {

public static long getCurrentEpochTimeStamp(String timeStamp) throws Exception {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'.0Z'");
    Date date = sdf.parse(timeStamp);
    return date.getTime();
}

This method returns the epoch current timestamp, which I need to convert to UTC time zone

Solution

Set the time zone to the simpledateformat object

sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));