Why is java.util.Date() not displayed correctly?

[Kv Payal]

When I am trying to print date and time using java.util.Date() in an expression or scriplet, it is displaying one hour back of system time. However the date is shown correctly. I tried storing it in a date variable and tried incrementing it by 1 to get the correct time but it is throwing an error and unable to increment.

How can I get correct time ?

[Bear Bibeault]

Probably a time zone issue.

[Stefan Evans]

Or given that it is a 1 hour difference, a Daylight time issue.
The rules for daylight time are constantly in flux, and those rules are stored in the Java runtime.
Older Java runtimes may not have up-to-date daylight time rules.

How are you displaying the date?
Just printing out the Date with a toString()?
Using a java.text.DateFormat ?
Using a tag eg JSTL <fmt:formatDate> ?

[Kv Payal]

Hi Stefan,

I am using <%= new java.util.Date() %> and it is obviously Daylight savings issue. How to overcome it?

Thanks for answering

[Mike Zal]

You should really be using the java.util.Calendar interface when dealing with time. The java.util.Date class has been mostly depricated since Java 1.1.

[Kv Payal]

Hi Mike,

I tried with java.util.Calender and its the same. However I could use the following to get the correct time.

int time=t.get(Calendar.HOUR)+1;

Thanks a lot.