FW: Need to use unix TZ timezone strings in java Timezone class

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@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