Calendar.getTime() does not return localized date and time. It always returns GM

Name: mc57594 Date: 02/07/97


System.out.println("Current Time");
SimpleTimeZone mez = new SimpleTimeZone(+1 * 60 * 60 * 1000, "Berlin");
mez.setStartRule(Calendar.APRIL, 1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
mez.setEndRule(Calendar.OCTOBER, -1, Calendar.SUNDAY, 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar(mez);
Date trialTime = new Date();
calendar.setTime(trialTime);
System.out.println("TIME: " + calendar.getTime());

The timevalue returned by Calendar.getTime() differs from the timefieldvalues of the Calendar-class (DATE, HOUROFDAY etc.)
in that is does not use Calendar.ZONEOFFSET. Instead ist always returns GMT time (e.g. NOT local time).
company - Technical University of Berlin, Germany , email - ###@###.###
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[Sheri Good 03/06/97] Here is a user with a the same time zone problem in
MET (Middle European Time)

From: Bjoern-Arne Meyn <###@###.###>

Subcategory: classes_util
Bug/rfe/eou: bug
Synopsis: TimeZone.getDefault() always returns GMT as current timezone
Description: On my computer running under Windows 95, the default timezone is MET (Middle European Time = GMT + 1 / +2 DST). Java code such as the following should return MET as default timzone and a raw offset of 1 (* 60 * 60 * 1000).

SimpleTimeZone stz = (SimpleTimeZone)SimpleTimeZone .getDefault();
System.out.println(stz.getID());
System.out.println(stz.getRawOffset() / (60 * 60 * 1000));

The values returned by the code are GMT and 0, no matter what the actual timezone is. If I change the timezone in my system's configuration, to EST for example, Java fails to notice this and still returns the values above.

company - , email - ###@###.###
Work around:


Comments:
customer_rec: new
Company: other
Employee:Bjoern-Arne Meyn
Release: jdk11
Hardware Version: i586
O/S version: win_95
User Role: D
User Type: E
Sun Contact: (internal)
end_customer_rec:
BUG_END

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