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Rafael Sisto commented on LANG-850:
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Thanks for clearing that, so the method truncates taking account of the current
timezone of the calendar.
I was having problems when comparing:
1-an XMLGregorianCalendar converted to Calendar (XMLGregorianCalendar doesn't
have the concept of DST, so the timezone is converted to GMT-2 in this
timezone) with
2-a GregorianCalendar created with "new GregorianCalendar()" which has a
timezone of "America/Montevideo".
According to the comments, my code should set the timezone of the converted
XMLGregorianCalendar to America/Montevideo before using the truncate method.
Thanks again, I had thought that the truncatedCompareTo should compare dates
managing the timezone before comparing.
> DateUtils.truncatedCompareTo not working properly with DST timezones
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LANG-850
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-850
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: lang.time.*
> Affects Versions: 3.1
> Environment: java version "1.6.0_32"
> Windows 7
> Timezone: America/Montevideo
> Reporter: Rafael Sisto
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch
>
> The method truncatedCompareTo doesn't work properly when comparing 2
> calendars in a different timezone (when one of them is "America/Montevideo",
> the same as the machine running the test).
> Here is the sample code to reproduce.
> The Timezone of the computer has to be set to UTC-3 Montevideo, with DST.
> {quote}
> GregorianCalendar c1 = new GregorianCalendar(2012,10,6);
> System.out.println("The time: " + c1.getTime());
> c1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Montevideo"));
> Calendar truncate1 = DateUtils.truncate(c1, Calendar.MONTH);
> System.out.println("America/Montevideo then truncated: " +
> truncate1.getTime());
> GregorianCalendar c2 = new GregorianCalendar(2012,10,6);
> c2.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
> Calendar truncate2 = DateUtils.truncate(c2, Calendar.MONTH);
> System.out.println("GMT then truncated: " + truncate2.getTime());
>
> System.out.println("Truncated compare: " + DateUtils.truncatedCompareTo(c1,
> c2, Calendar.MONTH));
> {quote}
> The output:
> {quote}
> The time: Tue Nov 06 00:00:00 UYST 2012
> America/Montevideo then truncated: Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 UYST 2012
> GMT then truncated: Wed Oct 31 22:00:00 UYST 2012
> Truncated compare: 1
> {quote}
> A suggestion is to change the TimeZone of both calendars before truncating.
> For example, setting both to TimeZone.getDefault().
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