SimpleDateFormat.format() always shows time and time zones as PDT

Name: sgC58550 Date: 06/06/97


Even though the local machine is configured for EDT, the
SimpleDateFormat class always seems to use PDT:

public class Testit
{

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
    Date currentTime_1 = new Date();
    String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime_1);

    System.out.println("dateString is: " + dateString);
    System.out.println("currentTime_1 is: " + currentTime_1);

  } // End of method

} // End of class

The output produced by the above code is:

dateString is: 06/05/1997 at 08:14:35 AM PDT
currentTime_1 is: Thu Jun 05 11:14:35 EDT 1997

The formats should differ, but the date, time, and time zone
should be the same.
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