Calendar.getTime() returns time GMT + 3.5 hours.

Problem
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Calendar.getTime() returns time GMT + 3.5 hours.

With the Solaris 2.6 shell variable set to MET the attached code
segment will produce a result that is 3.5 hours ahead of the GMT
time.

Code Example
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import java.util.*;
import java.io.PrintStream;

public class dt
{
    Calendar calendar;

    public dt()
    {

        calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.setLenient(false);
        System.out.println( calendar.getTime() + "\n");
    }

    public static void main(String astring[])
    {
        new dt();
    }
}


To Reproduce
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SPARC Solaris 2.6 FCS - No patches installed.

SunSoft JDK 1.1.4

java full version "Solaris_JDK_1.1.4_01_pre-release1"

Set the environment variable TZ set to the string "MET".

Install either JDK releases from above.


Run, date and the resulting Java application and you will see:

date ; java dt
Wed Jan 28 09:00:00 MET 1998
Wed Jan 28 11:30:01 GMT+03:30 1998

the actual dates may vary, but the offsets will be relative.

The above test was done at 08:00:00 GMT.