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1. Displaying a date with a custom timezone stackoverflow.com

Lets say I have a string that represents a date that looks like this: "Wed Jul 08 17:08:48 GMT 2009" So I parse that string into a date object like this:

DateFormat formatter = ...

2. Java Time Zone When Parsing DateFormat stackoverflow.com

I had code that parses date as follows:

String ALT_DATE_TIME_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(
                 ...

3. Parsing a Date in Java with a weird TimeZone stackoverflow.com

I'm getting dates sent to my application in the following format:

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS-04:00

The problem is the TimeZone, it doesn't follow the Z format (-0400) and it doesn't follow the z format (GMT-04:00). Is there ...

4. Java DateFormat parse() doesn't respect the timezone stackoverflow.com

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z");
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));

try {
    System.out.println(df.format(cal.getTime()));
    System.out.println(df.parse(df.format(cal.getTime())));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Here is the result:

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5. DateFormat returns different timezone than MSINFO32. coderanch.com

Hello All, I have written simple program to show Longer Date. I am using DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL, Locale.getDefault()).format( new Date())); Now when I run this program on one of the Windows Server 2008 machine, this program shows me different timezone than the MSINFO32 returns on the machine. Can anybody please tell me what could be the reason that Java returns different timezone ...