Java Development

[shreyasb]

Ok Thanks a lot for the clarifications...

[peter_strange]

Is this solved then? 

Would it be possible to post the code that you are using to output the Time Zone Offset (Z)?

[shreyasb]

OK.

TimeZone _timeZone = TimeZone.getDefault();                // Asia/Calcutta
boolean isDayLightSavings = _timeZone.useDaylightTime();
Calendar _calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
int gmtOffset = _timeZone.getOffset(1, _calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), _calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), _calendar.get(Calendar.DATE), _calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK), _calendar.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND));

int gmtOffset_Hr = gmtOffset_Milisec/DateTimeUtilities.ONEHOUR;	
int gmtOffset_Min = (gmtOffset_Milisec % DateTimeUtilities.ONEHOUR)/DateTimeUtilities.ONEMINUTE;

Then I gets gmtOffset_Hr =  5 & gmtOffset_Min = 30. Then after using Strign methods on it I gets it as +05 & 30 and put it in

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss "+gmtOffset_HH.trim()+gmtOffset_MM.trim());
Date date = new Date();
date.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis());
String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date).toString();

Thanks for the suggestions... got it ? let me know if any problem.

[peter_strange]

Happy with the first block of you code.  Be aware that

boolean isDayLightSavings = _timeZone.useDaylightTime();

only tells you if the Time Zone uses Daylight Saving, not whether it is currently in a Daylight Saving period.

Not sure that your second block actually compiles?  This doesn't look right:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss "+gmtOffset_HH.trim()+gmtOffset_MM.trim());

[shreyasb]

but

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss "+gmtOffset_HH.trim()+gmtOffset_MM.trim());

gives me correct time as "currenttime +0530"

[peter_strange · Accepted solution]

Ahh I see. 

You realize that you are passing in the String as a parameter to your SimpleDateFormat, which it then thinks is a constant and so does not do substitution. 

It would normally have been written as follows, which I am happy with:

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss ");
Date date = new Date();
date.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis());
String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date).toString() +gmtOffset_HH.trim()+gmtOffset_MM.trim();

[shreyasb]

Hey thanks. Its working with ur code.. Thanks a lot....

[peter_strange]

Can we mark this as Solved then?

[shreyasb]

I have marked it as solved.

Thansk a lot for the help...

[rincethomas33]

what is 

gmtOffset_Milisec