Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:32:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov> To: Bryan Liesner <bleez@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com>, <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: time screwed up with Linux-jdk1.3.1? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0107060026200.14766-100000@nova.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <20010705172636.T7698-100000@adsl-151-197-8-33.phila.adsl.bellatlantic.net>
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If you set the environment variable TZ appropriately, the linux JDK should
work as expected... ie. for US/Central time:
TZ=CST6CDT
export TZ
- Tim
p.s. I bet you a nickel this answer is in the freebsd-java email archive
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bryan Liesner wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Christopher Rued wrote:
>
> >Has anyone heard anything about the clock being screwed up under linux
> >emulation, or in the linux-jdk1.3.1?
> >
> >If I run this code:
> >
> >public class TestTime {
> > public static void main(String args[])
> > {
> > System.out.println("The current time is: "
> > + new java.util.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
> > }
> >}
>
> I did something similar in a servlet:
>
> SimpleDateFormat sdFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
> String dateAndTime = sdFormat.format(new Date());
>
> When Tomcat was running under linux-jdk1.3.1 it screwed up the time.
> It also returned GMT-5:00 with the actual time short by an hour.
>
> Under the FreeBSD native jdk1.2.2, the time was returned with EDT and
> the correct time.
>
> I haven't really looked into why. I usually use the native jdk, and I was
> just playing around with the Linux jdk.
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