How To Get GMT Time In Java?

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package com.coderolls.examples;

import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.util.Date;
/**
 * A Java Program to get time in GMT
 * 
 * @author Gaurav Kukade at coderolls.com
 *
 */
public class GMTTimeExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date date = new Date();
    String gmtTime = getGMTTime(date);
    System.out.println("Print time in GMT: "+gmtTime);
  }
	
	/**
	 * A method to return the GMT time string
	 * @param date
	 * @return
	 */
  public static String getGMTTime(Date date) {
    DateTimeFormatter customFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss O");
    Instant instant = date.toInstant();
    ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = instant.atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
    return customFormatter.format(zonedDateTime);
  }
}