[android-developers] Timezone Question

2011-04-22 Thread Jake Colman
My app needs to know the timezone in which is executing. To do this, I have the following code: import java.util.TimeZone; TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault(); One of my users says he has configured his phone to not switch timezones even though he may have flown across the country. He says

Re: [android-developers] Timezone Question

2011-04-22 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jake Colman col...@ppllc.com wrote: What API should I be using to get the timezone of the current location as opposed to the timezone that he has forced the phone to use? http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/8fa8dd46bb316a7c

[android-developers] Timezone Question

2011-04-22 Thread String
I don't believe that there is one. The platform only knows about one current time zone, and that's whatever the user has configured in Settings Date time. I've never seen a way to access the automatic zone if the user has overridden it. Your only other option would be to use a web service to