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javacalendartimezone
SPatrickApps
SPatrickApps

Reputation: 538

Calendar getTime() only returns EST

Calendar cl =  Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
cl.setTimeInMillis(time); 
Toast.makeText(getActivity(), cl.getTime().toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

What ever time I put it always returns the time in EST. I want it to return the time in PST. Does anyone know that could posibly be wrong?

P.S.
My local time is EST.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2339

Answers (3)

MadConan
MadConan

Reputation: 3767

This isn't really an answer but it's too big to put into a comment. This is what I found.

My test looked like this

    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles");
    Calendar cl = Calendar.getInstance(tz);

    System.out.println(tz.getDisplayName());
    String dayname = cl.getDisplayName(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK,Calendar.SHORT,Locale.US);
    String monthname = cl.getDisplayName(Calendar.MONTH,Calendar.SHORT,Locale.US);
    int hour = cl.get(Calendar.HOUR);
    int min = cl.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
    int sec = cl.get(Calendar.SECOND);
    int mill = cl.get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
    int year = cl.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    System.out.println("Time = " + cl.getTime().toString());
    System.out.println("Manually = " +
                           dayname + " " + monthname + " " +
                           hour + ":" + min +":" + sec + ":" + mill + " " +
                           cl.getTimeZone().getDisplayName(Locale.US) + " " + year);

Which gave the output

Pacific Standard Time
Time = Tue Nov 05 11:36:33 EST 2013
Manually = Tue Nov 8:36:33:238 Pacific Standard Time 2013

Looking at Calendar.getTime():

public final Date getTime() {
    return new Date(getTimeInMillis());
}

Following the bouncing ball...

public long getTimeInMillis() {
    if (!isTimeSet) {
    updateTime();
    }
    return time;
}

private void updateTime() {
    computeTime();
    // The areFieldsSet and areAllFieldsSet values are no longer
    // controlled here (as of 1.5).
    isTimeSet = true;
}

But I don't have the source for computTime() so that's where I stopped.

Gabriel's answer works, fwiw.

Upvotes: 3

Nathan Harkenrider
Nathan Harkenrider

Reputation: 566

Calendar.getTime() returns a java Date instance which represents the number of milliseconds from the epoch January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. Calling toString() on a Date instance will print the date based on the timezone configured on the server. To properly format a date for output in another timezone, you'll want to look at using a date formatter.

TimeZone est = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(est);

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy");
formatter.setTimeZone(est);
System.out.println(formatter.format(cal.getTime()));

Upvotes: 1

Gabriel Câmara
Gabriel Câmara

Reputation: 1249

Try this:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("PST"));
Calendar cl = Calendar.getInstance();

Upvotes: 3

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