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Get the UTC Machine Time in Java

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Beginning with JDK 8, the machine UTC timestamp with nanoseconds precision can be obtained via the java.time.Instant class as below:

// e.g., 2019-02-26T15:28:21.051163100ZInstant now = Instant.now();
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