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Tag: timezone

Converting string to ‘Instant’

I am trying to convert datetime in a string to an Instant instance using Java 8 or a utilities package. For example, to reqString is in the America/Toronto time zone. This is what I tried The above code results in “2018-05-12T23:30:00Z”. How can I do it? Answer tl;dr Fix your formatting pattern for unpadded month and day. Use only java.time

How to specify UTC timezone for Spring Boot JPA Timestamp

Environment Spring Boot Starter Data JPA 1.4.2 Eclipselink 2.5.0 Postgresql 9.4.1211.jre7 Problem I am building a Spring Boot microservice that shares a Postgresql database with a different service. The database gets initialized externally (out of our control) and the datetime column type used by the other service is timestamp without time zone. Therefore, since I want all dates on the

Why SimpleDateFormat.format() and SimpleDateFormat.parse() are giving different time though setting only one TimeZone?

I am trying to set the Timezone to the different country’s timezone with help of SimpleDateFormat. SimpleDateFormat.format() returns correct current time of the given Timezone, but SimpleDateFormat.parse() returns local current time, I don’t know why this is happening. Here is the my code: The output is: Time1 is the output of “America/Los_Angeles” and Time2 is the output of local (i.e.

get timezone in “+0100” (for example) format

I got lost between the documentation and the numerous time-related questions found by google. What I want is very simple: a string that represents the running timezone in the “[+/-] [number] [number] [number] [number]” format (for instance “+0100”). My current code is: which returns “GMT” in my location, which I assume is the short version (3 letters) of the timezones.

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