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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:25:41 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Timothy Kettering <timster@blackcore.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-Java <java@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Setting the JVM timezone
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:27:03PM -0600, Timothy Kettering wrote:

[...]
> But requesting the timezone in any java application I execute on the server
> gets me (+600 GMT).  And this makes absolutely no sense.  Where is this
> value coming from??  It's not CST, or even GMT.  The exact output of a
> simple program I included with this email (see below) is:
> 
> The TZ is: GMT+06:00
> 

Well, if I read this right, it says that you're 6 hrs *West* of GMT.
The UNIX convention has the '-' being East, '+' being West; New Zealand
has GMT-12. I'm not too sure whether Java has adopted this convention
though.

[...]
> Can people on this list run a simple program on their FreeBSD environment,
> and see if it returns the same TZ value that their server clock is set to,
> and let the list know?  Thanks.

I've tweaked it slightly, so that it looks like:

    import java.util.Date;
    import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

    public class TestRun
    {
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm zzz");
            String str = formatter.format(new Date());
            System.out.println("The time is: " + str);
        }
    }

Output is:

    central-~,4:20pm> date
    Wed Mar 13 16:20:23 NZDT 2002
    central-~,4:20pm> java TestRun
    The time is: 16:20 NZDT

That looks correct to me, I think.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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