Date and Time calculations

[Patil Niteen]

Hi,

I have date and time in IST . How to get the corresponding Date and Time In EST using Java API.



Thanks and regards,
Nitin.

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Please check JavaDatesFaq

[Jesper de Jong]

Do you have the date in a java.util.Date object?

One thing you should know is that Date objects do not know anything about timezones by themselves. When you convert the Date to a String using a DateFormat object, you can set the TimeZone on the DateFormat object if you want to have it formatted in a certain timezone. For example:

Date date = ...; // wherever you get this from

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST"));

// Will print the date in the EST timezone
System.out.println(df.format(date));