This may well be the JavaSoft defect
http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4124203.html
or one of the related ones.
Basically, they stuffed up daylight savings time in a number of European
countries
including Britain. The correct solution is only implemented in JDK 1.2, so
you
may have to wait until then.
Rob
Jeroen Siffels wrote:
> Dear Reader,
>
> It is not clear to me who is reading this message. But I hope you can
> help me with my question or give me a reference where I can find help.
>
> I'm running on a Pentium based system Linux 2.0.36 with JDK 1.1.6. My
> problem is that when I use the data command om the commandline
> (/bin/date) the date I see is corrent, but when I use in Java 'Data d =
> new Date()'. The reported time is one hour late. In Linux the CET is
> reported (I live in the Netherlands) as wanted but Java reports the UTC.
> How can I make my Java software report the localtime without making my
> code timezone depended (addind one hour is not a wanted solution) ?
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Jeroen
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