Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Timezone string and converting dates to my time zone Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:56:34 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5984 On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:35:39 -0700 (PDT), laredotornado wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I'm using Java 1.6. I'm trying to convert a date that is of a >different time zone than what my machine is and I'm trying to get an >equivalent java.util.Date object for my time zone. see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/timezone.html http://mindprod.com/jgloss/calendar.html for recipes for the usual transforms. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One thing I love about having a website, is that when I complain about something, I only have to do it once. It saves me endless hours of grumbling.