Java.util.Calendar returning wrong Date object

Question

Example: This was my scenario last night. A server in California has date/time of 'Mon Aug 18'. Current time in Indiana is 'Sun Aug 17'. I use Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Indiana/Indianapolis")) to return a Calendar instance. I then call the getTime() method on that instance. It should return a Date object relating to that particular time zone. It will not. It defaults back to the server time. When I print out the Calendar instance everything is good, correct date, correct time,etc. WHY WON'T THE getTime() return the correct java.util.Date???
Following is the output was run today so the dates happened to be the same so focus on the Time. Output includes Server time, new Calendar values, and the Date returned by calendar instance getTime(). See that the Calendar is getting the correct Time.
SERVER DATE=Mon Aug 18 15:52:13 CEST 2003
CALENDAR INSTANCE=java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1061214732975,areFieldsSet=true,areAllFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/Indiana/Indianapolis",offset=-18000000,dstSavings=0,useDaylight=false,transitions=35,lastRule=null],firstDayOfWeek=2,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=1,ERA=1,YEAR=2003,MONTH=7,WEEK_OF_YEAR=34,WEEK_OF_MONTH=4,DAY_OF_MONTH=18,DAY_OF_YEAR=230,DAY_OF_WEEK=2,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=3,AM_PM=0,HOUR=8,HOUR_OF_DAY=8,MINUTE=52,SECOND=12,MILLISECOND=975,ZONE_OFFSET=-18000000,DST_OFFSET=0]
Date from getTime()=Mon Aug 18 15:52:12 CEST 2003

Answer 1

I got it worked with using DateFormat.parse !
The trick is to instantiate a new Date object as a result
of parsing out of 'localized' date string.
with below code :
Calendar localCal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
localCal.set(Calendar.DATE, 25);
localCal.set(Calendar.MONTH, 7);
localCal.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2003);
localCal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,6);
localCal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 38);
localCal.set(Calendar.SECOND, 11);
Calendar sinCal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Singapore"));
sinCal.setTimeInMillis(localCal.getTimeInMillis());
int date = sinCal.get(Calendar.DATE);
int month = sinCal.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int year = sinCal.get(Calendar.YEAR);
int hour = sinCal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int min = sinCal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
int sec = sinCal.get(Calendar.SECOND);
String sinTimeString = date + "/" + month + "/" + year + " " + hour + ":" + min + ":" + sec;
System.out.println("VIDSUtil.hostToLocalTime : time string now in SIN time : " + sinTimeString);
java.util.Date sinTime = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse(sinTimeString);
System.out.println("time in SIN using Date.toString(): " + sinTime.toString());
It prints out :
VIDSUtil.hostToLocalTime : time string now in SIN time : 25/7/2003 21:38:11
time in SIN using Date.toString(): Fri Jul 25 21:38:11 PDT 2003
(Ignore the PDT, because Date.toString() defaults where the JVM is running)