If I serialize a java.util.Date object, and send it to another JVM that's on a different time zone, will the time zones be automatically accounted for?
I'm assuming it does because in the JavaDocs, it says the Date object really just stores the milliseconds since 1/1/1970, 00:00:00 **GMT**. Theoretically, this means if I serialize a Date object that's 3pm Eastern Time, and send it to a JVM that's on Pacific Time, then printing out the date should show either 3pm Eastern Time, or 12pm Pacific Time, BUT NOT 3pm Pacific Time.
So that's the behavior I want, and it seems to behave that way according to the documentation and my understanding of
Java. Does anyone see anything wrong with this?