Comments on: Java versus Daylight savings time

By: Asim Masood

Asim Masood — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:15:38 +0000

creationCal and todayCal are GregorianCalendar objects

By: Asim Masood

Asim Masood — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:14:07 +0000

Use something like this:
createTime = creationCal.getTimeInMillis() + creationCal.getTimeZone().getOffset(creationCal.getTimeInMillis());

todayTime = todayCal.getTimeInMillis() + todayCal.getTimeZone().getOffset(todayCal.getTimeInMillis());

diff = todayTime - createTime;
days = diff / MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY;

The offset piece takes care of this problem

By: GMAN

GMAN — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:40:51 +0000

I am facing problem while setting daylight savings in my pc. While running my application it shows system time. but not reflected US,Canada Estern time(5.00).
I used Java Calander and Date for display timing in my application with JDK 1.5

For US,CANADA it shows 1 Hr behind and for other region it shows correct time.
please clarify

By: Kumaresan

Kumaresan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:48:08 +0000

ye man, we know this is a problem, do you have any recomendations to fix these problem