How to convert current UTC time into Linux Timestamp

Question

I am trying to get current android device time, and convert it into UTC timezone, then i need to convert it into Unix Timestamp.

I google it, found some solutions, tried few, but nothing helping me here.

This is what i am doing now.

  Date date;
  SimpleDateFormat dateFormatGmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss");
  dateFormatGmt.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

  SimpleDateFormat dateFormatLocal = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss");

  date=  dateFormatLocal.parse( dateFormatGmt.format(new Date()) );

  date.getTime();

Output:

• date(Its returning the correct UTC date time) Thu Jan 26 08:06:20 GMT+05:00 2017
• date.getTime() returns 1485399980000

When i put this Timestamp in online tools, Its not returning right output.

Kindly guide me how to convert current UTC time into UnixTimestamp

Answer 1

What you need is much simpler:

new Date().getTime()

It is alread in UTC. To get a Linux timestamp you have to divide this by 1000.