Date(long date) constructor

[Tayitu Betule]

The following program prints "Wed Dec 31 19:00:01 EST 1969". Why?

import java.util.*;

public class dateTest{

public static void main(String args[]){

Date dt=new Date(1000);
System.out.print(dt);
}
}

According to JS2E API - 'It should initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since the standard base time known as "the epoch", namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT'.

Thank you all for your help.

[Ulf Dittmer]

EST is 5 hours behind GMT, so the two dates are identical.

[Pat Farrell]

Tayitu Betule wrote: Date dt=new Date(1000);

This is 1000 miliseconds since the beginning of Java time, i.e. one second after zero time.

[Tayitu Betule]

Thank you both. I forgot about the time difference.

[Bert Bates]

BTW, this could be considered a valid SCJP question.

[Tayitu Betule]

At first, I did post it at SCJP forum... but couldn't find it there when I try to see if anybody has replied. I did a search and found it in this forum. Anyways, thanks for clearing my doubts.