To know Timezone given City,State/Province,Country

[Maulin Vasavada]

Hi all,

I am trying to look for some way to know the following information,

- Given City,State/Province,Country know the Timezone it belongs to at the time of the query

I found following links so far which is a good source of information BUT wanted to get somebody else's input if you have any experience on it.

StackOverflow Post

Thanks
Maulin

[John McParland]

Hi Maulin,

If you look at the getTimeZone() method of the Calendar class clearly you can see there is a way to get a TimeZone from a given Calendar.

The trick is to get an appropriate calendar instance using the getInstance() method of Calendar, passing in a Locale.

Unfortunately that'll not help down to the city level. The above will only work for countries. SO why not try the likes of Joda Time as suggested here?

I hope this helps,

John