how to get the date in required timezone?

[Suresh K Babu]

Hi All,

Can anybody please let me know how to get the date in required timezone?
I tried with below java program, but it is returning date properly except timezone for the date as given in output.
How to I get proper timezone as well?

Appreciated your help.

    
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class DateConverter {
	public static void main(String ar[]){
		Date now = new Date();

		System.out.println("Current Time="+now);
		Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
		System.out.println("Current Timezone="+cal.getTimeZone().getDisplayName());

		//Canada/Central
		String timeZoneId = "Canada/Central";
		System.out.println("Getting Time in the timezone="+timeZoneId);
		System.out.println("Current Time there="+getDateInTimeZone(now,timeZoneId));
		}

	private static Date getDateInTimeZone(Date currentDate, String timeZoneId) {
		Calendar mbCal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timeZoneId));
		mbCal.setTimeInMillis(currentDate.getTime());		Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
		cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, mbCal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
		cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, mbCal.get(Calendar.MONTH));
		cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, mbCal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
		cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, mbCal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
		cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, mbCal.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
		cal.set(Calendar.SECOND, mbCal.get(Calendar.SECOND));
		cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, mbCal.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
		return cal.getTime();
	}
}

Program output:

Current Time=Wed Jun 09 23:28:55 IST 2010
Current Timezone=India Standard Time
Getting Time in the timezone=Canada/Central
Current Time there=Wed Jun 09 12:58:55 IST 2010

Thanks,
Suresh

[Darryl Burke]

Suresh K Babu wrote: it is returning date properly except timezone for the date as given in output.

Oh, but it is. When it's Wed Jun 09 23:28:55 2010 in Canada/Central it's Wed Jun 09 12:58:55 2010 in India.

Now if you want the String representation of that date in Canada/Central time, use an appropriate SimpleDateFormat.

[John de Michele]

Shouldn't that be Thursday, June 10th? Indian Standard Time is ahead of CDT.

John.