time zone

[jboland at citistreetonline.com (Boland, John)]

jerry,

i can't take credit for the code.  i had asked if anyone on the list
could help and i was graciously awarded with that code.

personally, i can barely speel java. :>))

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
Of Jerry Feldman
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:34 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: time zone

I think your problem is Java. There is a time zone fix for Java. 
I don't recall the details, but there is a short test program that John
Boland posted to the list. 
Save the code below as Test.java.
To compile it: javac javac Test.java
To run it: java Test
gaf at gaf:~/java> java Test
Wed Apr 11 10:33:15 EDT 2007

---------------------snip-----------------
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
    }
}
-----------------------------------snip---------------------------------
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:05:32 -0500
"dan moylan" <jdm at moylan.info> wrote:

> 
> john malloy writes:
> > Can you please fix the time on the system you sent this email from?
> 
> hmmm.  i can certainly see the problem.
> 
>   you: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:32:38 -0400
>   me:  Mon, 2007-04-09 at 09:45 -0500
> 
> i'm running FC6, and have set time to anerica/ny with clock kept in 
> GMT, using system-config-time.  the time zone variable shows: 
> TZ=EST5EDT
> 
> typing date now gives: Wed Apr 11 09:59:56 EDT 2007, which agrees with

> my swiss army watch.  i would certainly expect to see -0400 on the 
> mail time stamps from my system but don't.
> 
> i would be happy to fix the problem, did i only know how.
> suggestions are always welcome.
> 
> dan
> 
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