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Eric Lindauer
Eric Lindauer

Reputation: 1837

Calendar timezone is behaving strangely

I recently downloaded and installed Java 1.6.0_43 (32-bit version). I'm running on Windows 7 with a 64-bit processor. I find the following line:

System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getDisplayName());

prints "Venezuela Time"... as I am in Chicago, this is rather surprising!

I've searched but can't find anyone else having this problem. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Even a tip about how I might try to debug this issue would be useful.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (2)

emecas
emecas

Reputation: 1586

I am almost a 100% sure it is not a java issue.

Here you can see how to set the timezone in Windows 7:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/set-the-clock

On the other hand, in Windows 7 you can use TZUtil /L in a command prompt to see all time zone names and identify yours.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715394(WS.10).aspx

After that, you can modify the value for TimeZoneName variable contained in the custom.ini file

Upvotes: 1

StackExchange User
StackExchange User

Reputation: 1220

Go into Control Panel and check your Date and Time settings. This answer is just troubleshooting, more could fill this space...

Upvotes: 1

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