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    <p>In Order to show a reproducible scenario, I am doing the following</p> <ol> <li><p>Get the current system time (local time)</p></li> <li><p>Convert Local time to UTC // Works Fine Till here</p></li> <li><p>Reverse the UTC time, back to local time. Followed 3 different approaches (listed below) but all the 3 approaches retains the time in UTC only.</p> <p>{</p> <pre><code>long ts = System.currentTimeMillis(); Date localTime = new Date(ts); String format = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"; SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat (format); // Convert Local Time to UTC (Works Fine) sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")); Date gmtTime = new Date(sdf.format(localTime)); System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --&gt; UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime()); // Reverse Convert UTC Time to Locale time (Doesn't work) Approach 1 sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); localTime = new Date(sdf.format(gmtTime)); System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --&gt; UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime()); // Reverse Convert UTC Time to Locale time (Doesn't work) Approach 2 using DateFormat DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat (format); df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); localTime = df.parse((df.format(gmtTime))); System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --&gt; UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime()); // Approach 3 Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getDefault()); c.setTimeInMillis(gmtTime.getTime()); System.out.println("Local Time " + c.toString()); </code></pre> <p>}</p></li> </ol>
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