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Hi,

I'm brand new in Javarunch.
I've just started to learn for SCJP. I've already found answers for most of my questions here.

Can someone explain me why this code below produce the:
Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 GMT 1970
I thought that the result will be:
Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1970
 
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Hi Lukasz !!!

Take a look to the javadoc of the Date class.



Hope it help.
 
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Hi,

I did look into documentation before I posted here.

But I don't understand why if I pass 0l (0 long) paramenter, the date is set as a Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 GMT 1970 shouldn't be set as a 00:00:00 ?

As you mentioned, the parameter means: Sets this Date object to represent a point in time that is time milliseconds after January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT.

So I'm still confiused, If I pass 0 milliseconds (and from January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT past 0 miliseconds) the time should be the same, so why it is 1 hour later?

Please tell me where I am wrong?
 
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If i run your code, i will have: Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 CET 1970

This because my Time Zone is CET and CET is 1 hour ahead of GMC.

Are you sure that your Time Zone is GMC ?

Try to format your answer in GMC and see the answer. Use this code;
 
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Thank you...

That's clear enough.
 
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