Thanks! Joda time formatter worked.
Sachin
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> SimpleDateFormat does not respect the timezone you used. Try using the
> Joda-Time formatting mechanisms instead.
>
> Stephen
>
> 2008/10/20 Sachin Shenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Check the following code,
> >
> > void printBirthday(int year, int month, int day, int offset) {
> > MutableDateTime birthday = new
> > MutableDateTime(DateTimeZone.forOffsetHours(offset));
> >
> > SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat();
> > System.out.print("offset:" + offset + " " +
> > format.format(birthday.toDate()));
> >
> > birthday.addYears(year - birthday.getYear());
> > birthday.addMonths(month - birthday.getMonthOfYear());
> > birthday.addDays(day - birthday.getDayOfMonth());
> >
> > System.out.println(" date:" + format.format(birthday.toDateTime()));
> > }
> >
> >
> > when I invoke it like this, printBirthday(2008, 10, 20, 14); It prints...
> >
> > offset:14 2008/10/21 2:40 PM date:10/20/08 2:40 PM
> >
> > and when I invoke same date with offest 15... printBirthday(2008, 10, 20,
> > 15); It prints...
> >
> > offset:14 2008/10/21 2:40 PM date:10/20/08 2:40 PM
> >
> > See how the joda converted day is "19th" for offset 15 while with offset
> 14
> > it is "20th" (with the time being the same)? Is this expected? I thought
> the
> > date should be 20th irrespective of the timezone (or at least the time
> > should be corrected).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sachin
> >
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