java time

[Andrey Andreev]

Vano Beridze wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've got Fedora Core 2
> kernel 2.6.8
> 
> if I run a command date
> it gives me the output
> Fri Oct 29 22:03:50 GEST 2004
> 
> but If I compile and run a simple java program (with jdk1.4.2 or jdk1.5)
> 
> public class A
> {
>    public static void main(String[] args)
>    {
>       System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
>    }
> }
> 
> it gives me the output
> Fri Oct 29 23:03:50 GEST 2004
> 
> I'm sure it's a fedora problem, because I did not have that problems on 
> Core 1 or previous releases.
> 
> What should I do?

How about using java.util.Calendar? java.util.Date is somewhat old, and 
lots of functionality has been implemented in java.util.Calendar that 
was not backported to java.util.Date (localization issues were quoted as 
the reason for "dumping" java.util.Date)

//Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science