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Gavin Sweeney
Gavin Sweeney

Reputation: 121

How to get the specific time from any Timezone in Android?

I have managed to get a specific timezone using the TimeZone utility, for now I am using the .getDefault as an example. However I cannot get the exact time in the country with just this, so I was wondering how would I implement it? And would I have to use the calendar? Below is my code.

 TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
String TimeZoneName = tz.getDisplayName();
int TimeZoneOffset = tz.getRawOffset()/(60 * 60 * 1000);

t.setText("default time zone:" + 
        TimeZoneName + " : " +String.valueOf(TimeZoneOffset) + tz.getID() );

this comes with default timezone: Greenwich Meantime, gmt:0, Europe/Dublin, and I would like it to display the exact time on the end. Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 502

Answers (1)

DjHacktorReborn
DjHacktorReborn

Reputation: 2928

Joda Time has a complete list ofCanonical ID from where you can get TimeZone depending on the Canonical ID.

So, if you want to get the local time in New York at this very moment, you would do the following

// get current moment in default time zone
    DateTime dt = new DateTime();
    // translate to New York local time
    DateTime dtNewYork = dt.withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("America/New_York"));

Upvotes: 2

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