Offsetting systime

[Mahesh Mamani]

Hi All,
I'm retrieving the systime using the Date class and offsetting it to SGT using SinpleTimeZone. The code works fine in Java 1.1.7 environment but fails on the Java 1.1.3 environ.
SimpleTimeZone stz = new SimpleTimeZone(+8*60*60*1000,"Asia/Singapore");
SimpleTimeZone.setDefault(stz);
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMMyyyy hh:mm:ss a");
Date date = new Date();
StringBuffer timeStampBuff = new StringBuffer();
System.out.println(formatter.format(date).toString());
Is this a known bug or something which I have missed out.
Thanks in advance,
Mahesh

[Cindy Glass]

Are you SERIOUSLY trying to use the 1.1.3 jdk? Or did you mean the 1.3.1 jdk?

[Cindy Glass]

This looks like the bug that you are running into:

Bug Id 4065244

Votes 6

Synopsis TimeZone NightMare.... The movie...

Category java:classes_util

Reported Against 1.1.1, 1.1.3

Release Fixed

State Closed, duplicate of 4069784

Related Bugs

Submit Date Jul 16, 1997

Description
HI,
We are currently coding an application using timezone
and I have some problem with the time zone return by java.util.Date
On Solarix 2.5.1, if I do a

import java.util.Date;
class tt
{
public static void main(String args[])
throws java.text.ParseException
{
Date d;
d = new Date();
double tz;
tz = d.getTimezoneOffset();
System.out.println(tz+" mins");
System.out.println((tz/60.0)+" hours\n");
System.out.println(d.toString());
System.out.println(d.toGMTString());
}
}

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[ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]