Getting the startime and endtime of the day in epochmillis for different timezones – java

I am trying to get the start time (00:00:00) and the end time (23:59:59) of a day in the PST time zone. I have tried the following code, but for some reason, I am only getting the start and end times in UTC. I have tried changing the timezone to include "America/Los_angeles", but the output timestamp is always showing start and end times for GMT/UTC.

My code:

val time_zone = ZoneId.of("America/Los_Angeles")
val today_date = LocalDate.now(time_zone).plusDays(0)
val start_time = today_date + " " + "00:00:00"
val end_time = today_date + " " + "23:59:59"

val date_format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
val start_millis = date_format.parse(start_time).getTime();
val end_millis = date_format.parse(end_time).getTime();

start_millis

Output:

res375: Long = 1656460799000

In the epoch converter, 1656460799000 gives me this:

Anything I am missing here? Should I update any package, etc.?

>Solution :

Just add this section to your code:

date_format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST"));

Then it will work as you want 🙂