Problem with TimeZone when parsing a date

Question

Hallo all,
my computer has german locale. My Time Zone is +1. (Example London - 4 AM, Germany - 3 AM).
I execute the following code:
SimpleDateFormat dfHandDate = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, MMMM d, HH:mm:ss z yyyy", Locale.US);
String s = "Saturday, October 13, 14:05:41 ET 2007";
s = s.replace("ET", "EST"); // java doesn't know ET
Date date = dfHandDate.parse(s);
System.out.println(date);the output is:
Sat Oct 13 21:05:41 CEST 2007This is not correct time. The correct time is 20:05:41.
Why? What do i do wrong?
Thanks
Igor

Answer 1

{color:#000080}No, EST is correct, it stands for Eastern Standard Time, generally referred to in the US and Canada as Eastern Time (ET).
{color}{color:#0000ff}http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_time_zone{color}{color:#000080}
One way to offset Daylight Saving Time for Central European Time, there may be better ways :-)
date = new Date(date.getTime () +
        TimeZone.getTimeZone ("CET").getDSTSavings ());db{color}