timestamp in jdk1.4 and jdk1.7 (Gives two different result)

Hi all,
I want clarify one thing.
I installed j2sdk1.4.2_03 and jdk1.7 in my system.
when i run the following program it gives two different result in two version of java
my system timezone setting is -08:00 (Pacific US & Canada )

import java.sql.*;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;

class DB {
public static void main (String args []) throws SQLException
{
try {
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss Z");
Timestamp today = new Timestamp(df.parse("20081027023050 -0800").getTime());
System.out.println("Today = " + df.format(today));
}catch (ParseException e)
{ e.printStackTrace(); }
}
}

when i run this with jdk1.4... it gives 20081027023050 -0800
when i run this with jdk1.7 it gives 20081027033050 -0700
Can anybody clarify this?

Thanks & Regards,
thilsen

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ok

Thank you.

Welcome to JavaRanch

It is worthwhile checking whether there have been any changes to the rules about daylight saving time in the USA between 2001 when J2SE1.4 came out and 2006 when Java6 came out. That might explain the difference. Apart from that, I am afraid, don't know.
By the way, what's jdk1.7? Java7 hasn't been issued yet. Is it a version of gcj? I seem to remember my Fedora compiler is capable of saying it's 1.7.

If you see, both the times are same the only difference is the default value of timezone.

Please see this... http://java.sun.com/javase/timezones/.. java guys talk about this thing. I think 2007 onwards there are standard days when Daylight saving will be done so java compute the time zone (with daylight saving) based on these rules. In your programme, if yoy change the month to 12 (from 10)... you will start seeing time in -8:00 hrs.

Thank you

You're welcome