Calendar differences between timezones

[vincent_rig]

Hi all,

I notice some differences when running the piece of code below in different timezones. When I run by default I get following output:

Wed Apr 06 16:41:27 CEST 2011

When I change my timezone to -Duser.timezone=Asia/Jerusalem and run again, I get:

Wed Apr 06 16:50:48 IDT 2011

I would expect to perhaps get 1 hour difference since CEST is UTC+2 and IDT is UTC+3, but I do not understand why I get 9 minutes 21 seconds difference?

Both runs happen on the same machine with the same JDK (1.6.0_21).

Any ideas that could help me on my way?

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.setTimeInMillis(1302100887096);
Date date = c.getTime();
System.out.println(date);

[vanslyke]

Did you ever figure this out. I see the same problem.