current time problem on AIX

[Maris Orbidans]

Hi all,

We have a problem with Java (1.3) time being different than system time on an AIX box. Timezones seem to be correct. Java reports Central European Time and TZ environment variable is NFT-1DFT+01:00:00,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00. But there is 3 hours difference !

> date
Thu Jul 15 09:17:22 DFT 2004

> java CurrentTime

HOUR_OF_DAY: 12
MINUTE: 17
SECOND: 23
ZONE_OFFSET: 1
DST_OFFSET: 1
Time Zone: Central European Time

 
import java.util.*;
 
public class CurrentTime
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
        System.out.println("HOUR_OF_DAY: " + calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
        System.out.println("MINUTE: " + calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
        System.out.println("SECOND: " + calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND));
        System.out.println("ZONE_OFFSET: "
                        + (calendar.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET)/(60*60*1000)));
        System.out.println("DST_OFFSET: "
                + (calendar.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET)/(60*60*1000)));
 
        TimeZone tz = calendar.getTimeZone();
 
        System.out.println("Time Zone: "+ tz.getDisplayName() );
    }
} 

[Stephen Huey]

A quick Google around shows that this may be related to some time zone bugs reported for 1.3 and various zones, including the Euro Central time:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4252829