How convert date with different timezone?

Question

HI,
My problem is pretty simple. I have one Date and given another time zone (as a string), I want to have another date object with a different time zone. I used jodaTime. The code is as follows:
DateTimeZone zone = DateTimeZone.forID("US/Eastern");
DateTime parsedDateTime = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("mm/dd/yyyy").withZone(zone).parseDateTime(dstr);
System.out.println(parsedDateTime.toString());
System.out.println(parsedDateTime.toDate().toString());The output is:
2008-02-14T00:00:00.000-05:00
Thu Feb 14 11:00:00 GMT+06:00 2008
This is quite weird. As is obvious from the output, datetime stores date in the correct timezone. but when converted it to date it applies the jvm's timezone. Why is it so? And why is this time conversion mad e so difficult by providing zillions of classes and methods such as Date, Calendar etc.

Answer 1

amishera2006 wrote:
HI,
My problem is pretty simple. I have one Date and given another time zone (as a string), I want to have another date object with a different time zone. I used jodaTime. The code is as follows:
DateTimeZone zone = DateTimeZone.forID("US/Eastern");
DateTime parsedDateTime = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("mm/dd/yyyy").withZone(zone).parseDateTime(dstr);
System.out.println(parsedDateTime.toString());
System.out.println(parsedDateTime.toDate().toString());The output is:
2008-02-14T00:00:00.000-05:00
Thu Feb 14 11:00:00 GMT+06:00 2008
This is quite weird. As is obvious from the output, datetime stores date in the correct timezone. but when converted it to date it applies the jvm's timezone. Why is it so? And why is this time conversion mad e so difficult by providing zillions of classes and methods such as Date, Calendar etc.for the first question, i can't help you
but for the second one, i guess it's for historic reasons (no defined standard at the beginning lead to a big mess, the same way as with encoding issues)