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Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone?

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On 21.05.2013 16:58, laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

> I'm using Java 6.  I'm trying to see if there's a simple way to
> convert a long varaible (the number of milliseconds since 1970) to a
> timezone other than GMT.

As others have said already that is not necessary.  You need to 
distinguish two concepts:

1. point in time: this is represented by a number of milliseconds since 
a particular point in time in history.

2. representation of a point in time for various audiences (language, 
time zone).

Ideally internally to an application you use concept number 1 _all_ the 
time and make use of concept 2 when appropriate (e.g. when presenting a 
point in time to the user or writing it into a logfile).

> Can I parse the time zone string to get the number of hours
> difference and then just add that?  Grateful for any elegant
> solutions.

You can - but it's the wrong approach.

Cheers

	robert


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Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? laredotornado@zipmail.com - 2013-05-21 07:58 -0700
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-21 11:23 -0400
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-21 11:31 -0400
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2013-05-21 23:09 +0300
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2013-05-22 10:00 +0100
    Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-05-22 13:08 +0300
      Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-22 16:46 +0200
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-05-22 03:03 -0700
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-05-26 14:23 +0200
  Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone? Michal Kleczek <michal_wytnijto@kleczek.org> - 2013-05-27 11:45 +0200

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