Error in computing time based on TimeZones on a server

Question

I have a piece of code that generates timestamps based on US TimeZones such as Pacific, Central and Eastern. I get correct results when I run this code locally (EST) but get results an hour off when I run the same code on a server running in US central time. See the results below and the code that I run.
Results from running the code on Dev Server:
ts: 2007-11-05 10:39:03.19 ���� ������� (Default time)
tsEST: 2007-11-05 10:39:03.019� ������� (EST based on TimeZone String America/New_York, should be 11:39)
tsCST: 2007-11-05 09:39:03.019� ������� (Central time based on TimeZone String US/Central, should be 10:39)
tsPST: 2007-11-05 07:39:03.019� ������� (Pacific time based on TimeZone String America/Los_Angeles, should be 8:39)
Results from running the same code on Local machine:
tsEST: 2007-11-05 11:39:01.272� (Eastern Time based on TimeZone String America/New_York)
tsCST: 2007-11-05 10:39:01.272� (Central time based on TimeZone String US/Central)
tsPST: 2007-11-05 08:39:01.272� (Pacific time based on TimeZone String America/Los_Angeles)
Below is the code that I ran.
     Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(Calendar.getInstance().getTime().getTime());
DateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SS" );
GregorianCalendar cal1 = new GregorianCalendar();
Timestamp tsNow = new Timestamp(cal1.getTimeInMillis());
TimeZone tsEST = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
String inPattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SS";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(inPattern);
df.setTimeZone(tsEST);
Date date = df.parse(tsNow.toString());
df.setTimeZone(tsEST);
ts = new Timestamp( df1.parse( df.format(date) ).getTime() );
System.out.println("tsEST: " + ts.toString());
DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat(inPattern);
TimeZone tsCST = TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Central");
df2.setTimeZone(tsCST);
ts = new Timestamp( df1.parse( df2.format(date) ).getTime() );
System.out.println("tsCST: " + ts.toString());
TimeZone tsPST = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles");
df.setTimeZone(tsPST);
ts = new Timestamp( df1.parse( df.format(date) ).getTime() );
System.out.println("tsPST: " + ts.toString());

Answer 1

Actually, I did try a complete removal and re-install with the same results. On the desktop machine on which the Ctime client is working, Ctime was installed on an earlier system version and was working before the upgrade to the current system. The client continued to work. This at least indicates an initial setup problem on 10.2.4 and may indeed relate to the product not yet being ready for the latest system.