July 2004 - tz - lists.iana.org

Re: Need to use unix TZ timezone strings in java Timezone class
by Paul Eggert July 12, 2004

July 12, 2004

"Agarwal, Preeti (Med, GEMS-IT)" <Preeti.Agarwal(a)med.ge.com> writes: > java.util.TimeZone tz = java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST5EDT"); > > However this sets tz to GMT with 0 offset. How do I get the correct java > timezone? Soemthing like "America/New_york" that I can use to get the > current time in that timezone. I don't know of any Java facility to do that. My previous message gave you a way of generating a table that maps strings like "EST5EDT" to strings like "America/New_York", by looking for "Link" lines in the tz database source files. You could generate this table by hand and drop it into your Java source code somewhere. The idea is that you modify your Java program to look up nonstandard strings like "EST5EDT" in your own table. For that particular example, you'd find an entry in your own table that says "America/New_York", and then use "America/New_York" instead.

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FW: Need to use unix TZ timezone strings in java Timezone class
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) July 12, 2004

July 12, 2004

Preeti Agarwal is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Agarwal, Preeti (Med, GEMS-IT) [mailto:Preeti.Agarwal@med.ge.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 5:14 PM To: 'tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov' Subject: Need to use unix TZ timezone strings in java Timezone class Hi, We have an application that uses the unix timezone string formats "EST5EDT", "PST8PDT" etc. I need to convert these timezone strings into equivalent java timezones that can be understood by java.util.TimeZone class. If I pass the above unix timezone strings, it returns the server timezone and not the java equivalent of the unix timezone. I would appreciate any help in resolving this. Thanks, Preeti

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Need to use unix TZ timezone strings in java Timezone class
by Agarwal, Preeti (Med, GEMS-IT) July 8, 2004

July 8, 2004

Hi, We have an application that uses the unix timezone string formats "EST5EDT", "PST8PDT" etc. I need to convert these timezone strings into equivalent java timezones that can be understood by java.util.TimeZone class. If I pass the above unix timezone strings, it returns the server timezone and not the java equivalent of the unix timezone. I would appreciate any help in resolving this. Thanks, Preeti

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