daylight savings time change

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Jan 10 14:24:03 UTC 2007


On Jan 11 Tim did spake thusly:

> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:12 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
>> To maintain platform independence Java does not acquire the date time
>> from the OS, but does it's own calculations.
>
> I presume you don't mean the JRE.  I've never seen any way that you
> could tell it to use a particular timezone, so it must be able to tell
> what your local one is by itself.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html

It gets the date from the host OS. It counts (same as unix) in 
milliseconds from 1 Jan 1970.

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