TimeZone and Region

Hello folks,
This is regarding mapping of Date, Time Zone and Region.
Currently our system receives an event. Our Current application captures the event reception time using Date constructor and saves it in DB. We also get the Region, usually Midwest or West. We have to convert the reception time using the Region field on the event.
Since our app servers are in Midwest region, the reception time stamp value will be Central even though the region from which the event is received is West. We need to translate the reception time based on the region, in above case to US/Western time.
Any pointers as to how to do this translation, so that it doesn't matter where our app. servers are running.
JY

get.it.over wrote:
Hello folks,
This is regarding mapping of Date, Time Zone and Region.
Currently our system receives an event. Our Current application captures the event reception time using Date constructor and saves it in DB. We also get the Region, usually Midwest or West. We have to convert the reception time using the Region field on the event.
Why?
Since our app servers are in Midwest region, the reception time stamp value will be Central even though the region from which the event is received is West. No it won't. The java.util.Date data in the Sun VM is always in UTC (no daylight) timezone. Unless you are using a custom built VM or a different VM which doesn't do that, then that will be true.
We need to translate the reception time based on the region, in above case to US/Western time.
Any pointers as to how to do this translation, so that it doesn't matter where our app. servers are running.First I would guess you need to understand that you have one or both of the following problems.
1. A display problem
2. A storage/persistence problem.
You solve them independently. For the display problem if you need someone in Kansas to see a timestamp value for a timestamp created in Floriday you must first insure that the business (not technological side) understands what it is exactly that they want to see. Presuming that they ALWAYS want to see a local value (which in many businesses is not the case) then you do one of the following
1. Deliver the data (not string) to them and let their VM display it.
2. Have the client deliver a timezone to you as part of the request and then you create an appropriate string using SimpleDateFormat.
Note that option 2 is probably going to require a display format as well. Again however probably that requires business input.

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