Android: Problem with Time Interval when using UTC: System.currentTimeMillis()

Leo N
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readJan 16, 2023

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What is UTC?

UTC is the main universal time keeping standard. It stands for Coordinated Universal Time. People use it to measure time in a common way around the globe. Since it is essentially being used interchangeably with GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) you could think of it as the timezone defined around the Greenwich Meridian…

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