Re: Probelem with Date and daylight savings

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From: Hanan Hermon
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:31

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Thanks for your answer.

I found a way to disable the daylight savings by changing
the default TimeZone.

The problem is that I need to do it ONLY if the OS is not configured
to use daylight savings (Tested on WinNT).

Is there a Java API to check if the OS configuration ??

Thanks in advance,

R.F. Pels <ruurd@acklin.nl> wrote in message news:3cc6aff3_1@dnews...
> Hanan Hermon wrote:
>
> > I'm using the following code:
> >     System.out.println(""+new Date());
> >
> > Surprisingly the output is not correct. ( if the time is 10:00 then the
> > output is 11:00 ).
>
> Read the javadoc associated with java.util.Date. Try toLocaleString() and
> toGMTString() and see what happens.
>
> --
>
> Ruurd

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