: to get the UTC back which I thought might not be required as already the : cDate field in that Date class is having the UTC date.
general suggestion: your life will be a lot easier if you stop looking at the implementation details of JVM classes -- just because your current JVM implements the Date class with some internal "cDate" field doesn't mean that the next JVM release (or some JVM sold by another company) will be implemented the same way. : The toString() doesn't actually give me timestamp in UTC format. It gives, the representation returned by toString() is entirely dependent on your locale. please read my comment fully. there are *LOTS* of tutorials on the internet about dealing with Date & DateFormat objects in java... >> Date objects in Java do not have any intrinsic TimeZone -- they >> represent absolute fixed moments in time. to "see" a Date in UTC (or >> any other time zone) you must convert it to a String -- either by using >> hte detault "toString()" representation, or by using a DateFormat. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
