Re: Timezones and versions of Java

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class testtz {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

       Date date = null;

       SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new
SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");

       try {

            date = dateFormat.parse("20100504124818");
       }
       catch(ParseException pe) {
           System.out.println("Error");
       }

       TimeZone tz1 = TimeZone.getDefault();

       long localOffset = tz1.getOffset(date.getTime());

       System.out.println("Local Offset " + localOffset);

       TimeZone tz2 = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST");

       long remoteOffset = tz2.getOffset(date.getTime());

       System.out.println("EST Offset " + remoteOffset);

       Date dateToPutInDB = new Date(date.getTime() - localOffset +
remoteOffset);

       System.out.println("EST time " + dateToPutInDB);

       System.out.println("BST time " + date);

   }

}

On May 23, 3:45 pm, Nigel Wade <nmw-n...@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote: