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Use System.currentMilliseconds() to retrieve the UTC code and make a time of
it.

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long x = System.currentMilliseconds();
x /= 1000;
int sec = (int)x % 60;
x /= 60;
int min = (int)x % 60;
x /= 60;
int hour = (int)x % 24;
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This gives you the RAW windows internal time...


Ivo


"Edwin G�nthner" <egu@compart.net> wrote in message
news:3afa34d2$1_1@dnews...
>
> Hi John,
>
> >It would help if you would tell us in which way it fails.  Does it
> >throw an exception?  Print out incorrect results?  Crash your hard
> >drive?   :o)
>
> First it killed my dog then it screw up my television set ...
>
> No, the only problem is that it print outs incorrect results. ;-)
> Code is quite simple:
>
> Date date = new Date();
> System.out.println(myFormatter.format(date));
>
> On my machine, it gives me the correct time,
> on the other machine, it gives me correct time + one hour.
>
> I assume that Java ignores this one flag ("change according to
> daylight saving times automatically") that you can setup in
> Windows Date settings.
>
> If I switch of this feature on my machine, the Windows clock will
> show me "correct time - one hour". I assume that Java always takes this
> time and adds one hour. Correct for my machine, but not correct
> if you switch off the windows flag and tell your machine the exact time
> (meaning: the user changes the clock  if daylight saving time changes -
and not
> the system).
>
> Maybe a table makes it more clear:
>
>                   actual time       windows time (internal)     windows
external        Java
> my machine   10:00                9:00                             9 +
1 -> 10:00        9+1-> 10:00
> customer        10:00              10:00                           10 +
0 -> 10:00     10+1 -> 11.00
>
>