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Format a Java Date as UTC String: yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss'Z'
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formatDateAsUTC.java
publicString formatDateAsUTC(Date date) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'Z'");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
return sdf.format(date);
}
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sckirk commented Oct 3, 2019

Updated bug: I was playing around with this Java code and was confused why the minutes were showing up as the month. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html confirmed the month needs to be 'M' instead of 'm'.

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