getting correct time zone in HPI

[Rudre]

Hi

I have requirement that i need to get the timezone of the system in java class and instantiate this value in configuration file. Subsequently i use TZ value stored in configuration fiile, in my scripting.

For this i am using TimeZone.getDefault().getID() API to get the TimeZone. It returns America/Los_Angeles in one of the HPI system. But AIX 5.3
and HPI does not support long TZ string.

How can i convert TZ like America/Los_Angeles to PST8PDT. or is there any way to get the timezone object which is supported in all the platforms.

Thanks in Advance.

[JosAH]

Hi

I have requirement that i need to get the timezone of the system in java class and instantiate this value in configuration file. Subsequently i use TZ value stored in configuration fiile, in my scripting.

For this i am using TimeZone.getDefault().getID() API to get the TimeZone. It returns America/Los_Angeles in one of the HPI system. But AIX 5.3
and HPI does not support long TZ string.

How can i convert TZ like America/Los_Angeles to PST8PDT. or is there any way to get the timezone object which is supported in all the platforms.

Do AIX and HPI recognize the result of the getID() method?

kind regards,

Jos

[Rudre]

Yes, TimeZone.getDefault().getID() returns America/Los_Angeles. If we set this value for TZ environment variable, there will be time stamp difference

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bash-4.0$ uname -a
HP-UX staod03 B.11.31 U ia64 3712220453 unlimited-user license
bash-4.0$ env |grep TZ
TZ=PST8PDT
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 00:03:21 PDT 2010
bash-4.0$ export TZ=America/Los_Angeles
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 07:03:30 America/Los_Angeles 2010
bash-4.0$ export TZ=PST8PDT
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 00:05:30 PDT 2010
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[JosAH]

Yes, TimeZone.getDefault().getID() returns America/Los_Angeles. If we set this value for TZ environment variable, there will be time stamp difference

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bash-4.0$ uname -a
HP-UX staod03 B.11.31 U ia64 3712220453 unlimited-user license
bash-4.0$ env |grep TZ
TZ=PST8PDT
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 00:03:21 PDT 2010
bash-4.0$ export TZ=America/Los_Angeles
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 07:03:30 America/Los_Angeles 2010
bash-4.0$ export TZ=PST8PDT
bash-4.0$ date
Fri Jul 2 00:05:30 PDT 2010
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Your example shows that on your system(s) the America/Los_Angeles timezone and the PST8PDT timezone are seven hours apart; if there is daylight saving time to me it looks that the America/Los_Angelse timezone is treated as GMT+0 ... does it recognize the America/Los_Angeles timezone? (look ik your TZ database).

kind regards,

Jos