Problem in Changing Timezone (URGENT)

[Naresh Talluri]

Hi
I have a small problem while changing timezone,
i have a calendar class which is in EST format,that i need
to change in PST , here iam not able to change the time,
while printing timezone value it is printing as correbt but it is
not showing the difference time,
Code:
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatori = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
dateFormatori.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST"));
Date d=new Date();
String formated_date=dateFormatori.format(d);
System.out.println(formated_date);
can you please help me how to resolve this issue..

Thanks
-Naresh

[Suraj Berwal]

Hi Naresh,

Please post the complete code for the function and also the output.

Suraj

[Naresh Talluri]

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Please post the complete code for the function and also the output.
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Here is the code

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;
 
public class DateTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String TIMEZONE = "PST";
String DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss z";
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatori = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
TimeZone zuluTimeZoneori = TimeZone.getTimeZone(TIMEZONE);
dateFormatori.setTimeZone(zuluTimeZoneori);
Date d = new Date();
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST"));
System.out.println("Date format time--->"+ df.getCalendar().getTime());
String formated_date = dateFormatori.format(d);
System.out.println(formated_date);
Date parsed_date = dateFormatori.parse(formated_date);
System.out.println(parsed_date);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
 
}

Here i got in the date as in PST format but that is in String format ,
to make it as Date object i parsed using parse(), but iam getting the
current IST(Indian Standard Time) , i need it in a PST format can you
please help me out,

Thanks
-Naresh
[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

[Jim Yingst]

In the future please use code tags. I have added them to your post above for readability.

Your problem is here:

System.out.println(parsed_date);

This is equivalent to:

System.out.println(parsed_date.toString());

Unfortunately toString() will always use your computer's local time zone. If you want any timezone other than that, you can't use Date's toString() method. Instead use a DateFormat such as the one you've already created:

System.out.println(df.format(parsed_date));

[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

[Anand Hariharan]

Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
(...)
Your problem is here:

System.out.println(parsed_date);

This is equivalent to:

System.out.println(parsed_date.toString());

Unfortunately toString() will always use your computer's local time zone.
(...)[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

Nice catch!