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Abhishek Prasad
Abhishek Prasad

Reputation: 117

Why is it showing the wrong timezone output?

TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Eastern");     
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd kk:mm z");
Date date=new Date();
formatter.setTimeZone(timeZone);
System.out.println(timeZone.getDisplayName());
System.out.println(formatter.format(date));

the output on my system is :

Eastern Standard Time

2015-04-01 02:41 EDT

I was expecting :

Eastern Standard Time

2015-04-01 02:41 EST

because US/Eastern is EST. can anyone explain me why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 85

Answers (3)

maroswal
maroswal

Reputation: 96

It's because of the daylight saving during summer.

U.S. states using EDT in the summer and EST in the winter. 1

Upvotes: 1

Seelenvirtuose
Seelenvirtuose

Reputation: 20658

The EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) is the daylight saving time zone coupled to EST (Eastern Standard Time). See Eastern Time Zone.

So you are getting a correct output.

Upvotes: 2

Google
Google

Reputation: 80

That's Eastern Daylight Time. To save an hour of daylight an hour is subtracted from the current time. As you can see the times are the same. This means that EST was updated automatically. In short, it's basically the same thing, do not worry.

See this short encyclopedia article.

Upvotes: 3

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