Simple calendar with TimeZone wouldn't work..

[patnim17]

Hi,
I have this simple program in which want a Calendar Object created for a TimeZone...doesn't work..

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class TestTimeZone {
public static void main(String args[]) {
TimeZone tz1 = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles");
System.out.println("TimeZone id=" + tz1.getID());

Calendar gmtCal = Calendar.getInstance(tz1);
System.out.println("getTime=" + gmtCal.getInstance().getTime());

}
}

 

[stefanwagner]

Ah - the well known 'doesn't work' problem!

Doesn't compile?
JVM crashes?
Exception trown?
Unexpected results?

Shall we guess?
I go for option 3.

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[sedj]

A quick google finds this workaround :

                 Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();                 DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL,DateFormat.FULL);                 df.setTimeZone (TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));                 String timeStamp = df.format (c.getTime ());                 System.out.println(timeStamp);

The problem is that the Date object that you extract from the Calendar (c.getTime()) loses the time zone information that you have in the Calendar. You can work around this problem by using the DateFormat class as follows:

Taken from

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=164490&messageID=4034398

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