Ok, after some heavy digging, here's the deal:
Support for abbreviations is only kept around for compatibility for Java
1.1.x and apparently AEDT is not a standard time zone abbreviation
(though I bet Sydney residents would beg to differ...). It appears that
the preferred time zone string format for Java is Country/City, so
Australia/Sydney in this case...
The time zones currently supported by Java can be found in the lib/zi
sub-directory of your JRE installation directory - they're binary files
so don't try to read them...
Perhaps the reason Java supports American time zones is that Sun is an
American company? (In the words of Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the
king...")
-adam
Adam Gordon wrote:
Ok, so not specifically a Struts question, but anway...
I'm using the fmt:formatDate element in a JSP and it appears that when
the value of my "pattern" attribute includes "zz" (the time zone, my
full format is "hh:mm a zz") then for US time zones (e.g. PST, PDT,
MST, MDT, etc...) then the same shows up in my rendered string in the
web page. If, however, I use a Calendar object whose time zone is
say, AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) then "GMT" is rendered
instead.
It's not doing a date/time conversion because the timestamp that was
pulled from the Calendar object is what I had originally set it as and
not GMT+11, the GMT offset for AEDT.
It's not crucial that I have this since I can just remove the "zz" and
put my time zone string in its place, but I'm curious as to why it's
not inserting the right time zone.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm running Kubuntu (dapper) and I tried
setting /etc/timezone to America/Denver and Australia/Sydney (via the
control panel) but the behavior is the same - it's really weird.
Thanks,
-adam
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