title: How can I get the current UTC time online in Android?
body: <p>I am using the UTC timezone and the time in my application to get data. In the application, wherever the user can get the UTC time and used for getting the data. 
  I used this method to get the UTC time.</p>
  
  <pre><code>String format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
  final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
  sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
  String utcTime = sdf.format(new Date());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The application is working fine. But it is converting the system time to UTC time. The problem is that sometimes the user can change the time to the wrong time. So the data is not coming.</p>
  
  <p>Case for the above issue is:</p>
  
  <p>For example the current date time in India is Thursday, 26 July 2012, 14:27:56, time zone Kolkata. Then the time, Pacific time zone, should be Thursday, 26 July 2012, 01:59:30 PDT.</p>
  
  <p>But the user changed his device time from 14:27:56 to 13:27:56, so the converted UTC time will be Thursday, 26 July 2012, 00:59:30 PDT. At this point my app is not able to get the date because of the one-hour difference.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to use date, Calendar classes for Java and I don't want to use the device time. How can I get the UTC time directly, without involving the device's time, date. Is there any open-source API for that?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>