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TimeZone Conversion

 
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Please help to convert one timeZone to another.Given method is converting the given time to server Timezone where the server is located.But it is not converting from server time to any other user time.


 
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Working with dates, times and timezones in Java can be confusing.

One thing that you need to be aware of is that class java.util.Date does not store information about timezones. A java.util.Date is a kind of fancy wrapper that stores a number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. So in a way you can regard a java.util.Date as always being in the GMT timezone.

A Calendar does have a TimeZone property, but setting or modifying it does not convert the date and time that the calendar holds to a different timezone.

When you convert a Date to a String by using a DateFormat object, then you can set the timezone on the DateFormat object, and it will convert your Date to a String that represents the date and time in that timezone. Likewise when you have a String that contains a Date and you use a DateFormat object to parse it. For example:

This prints out:

2006-11-28 15:45:12
 
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"A Calendar does have a TimeZone property, but setting or modifying it does not convert the date and time that the calendar holds to a different timezone."

Genius, pure genius!
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