Date problem on server

[Justin Howard]

Hi All,

I have a very simple function to get the current time as a string.

   
public  static String getDateTime()  
	{  
		SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("mm-dd-yyyy_hhmmss_");  
	    return df.format(new Date());  
	}
 

I am appending this value to the name of the person and create a file with theis filename.
It work perfectly fine when I deploy on my local tomcat.

But when I deploy it on the server Tomcat it returns nothing.


Thanks

[Leandro Coutinho]

What time is it on the server?

[Justin Howard]

Thanks for the reply.

When I echo the date and time in the dos prompt it returns the correct date and time.

Thanks

[Leandro Coutinho]

Are you sure that the problem is in this method and not in other place?

What the code below prints?

public  static String getDateTime()  {  
	SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("mm-dd-yyyy_hhmmss_");  
        String d = df.format(new Date());
        System.out.println("Date: " + d);
        return d;  
}

[Justin Howard]

I dont think there is a problem with the code either. When I print it out locally it returns correctly.
When I deploy the app on my local tomcat it returns the date correctly and appends the date correctly to the filename.

When I deploy it on the QA server the time does not append.

I am not sure what to look for.

Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

My suspicion is that the date code is working perfectly well but that you can't create the file due to the security configuration on the QA server (or for some other reason). But that's just a wild guess. To me "the time does not append" isn't a very clear description of the problem.

[Justin Howard]

Thanks. I will defnitely look for any security configurations.

When I say time does not append, I mean

    
String filename = Utils.getDateTime()+content.get("[name]")==null?"":content.get("[name]")+".did";

And then create a file with this name.
Locally it works correctly, eg: 40-30-2009_044005_name.did

Thanks