Date printed in IST format when EDT format required

[Veena Gupta]

Hi all,
I want to store and print date in EDT format .But its getting stored and printed in IST(Indian Standard Time) as my local setting is IST. How I get it in EDT(Eastern Time US and Canda which is GMT-05.00)

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Time {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SimpleDateFormat dateformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S", Locale.US);
//TimeZone zone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-5.0");

//dateformat.setTimeZone(zone);

Date obj = dateformat.parse("2005-09-20 00:00:00.0");
System.out.println(obj);
//prints Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 IST 2005
//who do i get Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2005??

}
}

Thanks a lot
Veena

[Ritesh Agrawal]

Hi Veena,

Welcome to The JavaRanch...

Here is a sample code that might get you going:

 
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
 
public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
    //Format for EDT Time
    DateFormat edtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS zzz");
    //Format for GMT Time
    DateFormat gmtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS zzz");
    //Get GMT Time Zone
    TimeZone gmt = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
    //Get EDT Time Zone. Note you can use 'America/Los_Angeles' for PST etc.
    TimeZone edt = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
    gmtFormat.setTimeZone(gmt);
    edtFormat.setTimeZone(edt);
 
    // Your code slightly modified and put here
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S");
    Date dd = df.parse("2005-09-20 00:00:00.0");
    System.out.println("Greenwich: " + gmtFormat.format(dd));
    System.out.println("Pacific: " + edtFormat.format(dd));
  }
 
Output:
Greenwich: 2005-09-19 18:30:00.000 GMT
Pacific: 2005-09-19 14:30:00.000 EDT
 

Refer to the discussion here
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=31&threadID=659608
for further details and more information.

Hope it helps.


[ October 03, 2005: Message edited by: Ritesh Agrawal ]