time zones

[Chanpreet Julka]

I am writing a java aplication that has to convert standard time to GMT using time zone. I am not sure how to go about this, so some general advice would be helpfull. Thank you.

[Lewin Chan]

I thought standard time was GMT...
Assuming that the time you're trying to convert has a timezone in it, and you are currently in the GMT timezone, then you could use the java.text.SimpleDateFormat object.

SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");
java.util.Date d = df.parse(dateString);
long utc = d.getTime();

Or something like that

[Chanpreet Julka]

ill try it out. thanks