Does a java.util.Date really represent the true UTC?

No, but it is close enough for most human time-keeping purposes. On most computers, it only represents the time since the epoch as converted from the value on the underlying hardware. If you have hardware that is synchronized with an atomic clock your time is UTC; most hardware assumes a day is 24 hours long, but there have been more than 20 leap seconds added to UTC, since the first one was added in 1972.

5. (Sect. 9) How do I create a Date object that represents the current time?

* The default value of a date object is the current time, so the following code creates a date object that contains the current time. Date now = new Date(); 6. (Sect.

9) I want to create a string that represents a date in a format other than what is returned by java.util.Date. More.

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