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javatimezonemetadatapdfbox
SteeveDroz
SteeveDroz

Reputation: 6136

How to set up a correct creation date with PDFBox?

I'm learning how to generate PDF with PDFBox. So far, I managed to create the document and to modify basic meta data.

I do have a problem with the date of creation, though. I tried many things, this being the most logical one:

//My PDDocument is called "document".
PDDocumentInformation info = document.getDocumentInformation();
info.setCreationDate(Calendar.getInstance());

The result, when right-clicking on the generated PDF and choosing "properties" is mar 28 jun 2011 12:28:36 CEST. (mar stands for "mardi", Tuesday in French). My problem is that the correct time should be 12:28:36 GMT+1.

When I print System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance());, it returns (...)zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Europe/Zurich",(...) (Full content on demand), which is correct!

So, where is the problem?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1670

Answers (1)

SKi
SKi

Reputation: 8466

There is no problem in you code. If you run it in france during dst, local time should be GMT+2. And GMT+2 is same as CEST.

Upvotes: 3

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