Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY ok, wrong with Calendar getTimeInMillis

Question

Hi! I've a very strange behaviour (at least for me) regarding getTimeInMillis from the Calendar class.
I have this code:
Calendar ahora = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT+6"),new Locale("es_MX"));
System.out.println(ahora.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
System.out.println(ahora.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)+1);
System.out.println(ahora.get(Calendar.MONTH));
System.out.println(ahora.get(Calendar.YEAR));
java.util.Date f = ahora.getTime();
System.out.println(f.toString());And the output is:
14
10
10
2004
Sun Oct 10 20:24:59 GMT 2004
The strange thing, is that the Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY prints the hour correctly (14) but the Date object says it is the hour 20. What tha hell is going on there? Why one print the hour correctly and the other don't! I supouse that it has something with the TimeZone in the Calendar class, but I don't know what exactly is going on.
Regards!

Answer 1

Hi bbritta! I used the SimpleDateFormat and the result is the same. I still get the right hour from Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY but wrong from toString() from the Data object created with the milliseconds of the Calendar.
This is what I did after your post:
Calendar ahora = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/GMT+6"),new Locale("es_MX"));
SimpleDateFormat formatter =     formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mm a",new Locale("es_MX"));
java.util.Date f = ahora.getTime();
System.out.println(formatter.format(f));In fact, the behaviour is very strange. In Mexico City we are at GMT-6, but if I put that on the TimeZone of the Calendar, it always show a plus 12 hours. For example, right now we are 15:00 on October 10 in MexicoCity, if I use GMT-6 (in theory the right timezone), I get that is the hour 3 (AM) on October 11. But if I put GMT+6, I get the right hour and day from Calendar.XXXX but wrong from the millis.
Any other idea?