datetime - Java get UTC time

Question

I want to get the time in UTC time zone. So I wrote the code:

import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.Date;

public class RegularSandbox {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ZonedDateTime utc = ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneOffset.UTC);

        System.out.println("DATETIME = " + Date.from(utc.toInstant()));

    }
}

The problem is the output shows me the time in PST (my local timezone). I need it to output the time in UTC so I can store it inside of my databases.

Answer 1

System.out.println("DATETIME = " + utc.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")));