Java Date to SQL DateTime with timestamp

Date class is java.util.Date and while it is formatted as String (currentTime below), it can be inserted into DB field set as DATETIME.

                     // Change to string store in MySQL (DATETIME)  
                     Date dt = ugc.getCreate_time();  
                     java.text.SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");  
                     String currentTime = sdf.format(dt);  

Inserted record format: 2013-11-04 14:09:59