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 Message-ID: <20020313162541.A37054@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <B8B3F8F7.582D%timster@blackcore.com>; from timster@blackcore.com on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:27:03PM -0600 References: <20020312191638.A5376@fritz.cc.gt.atl.ga.us> <B8B3F8F7.582D%timster@blackcore.com>
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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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