org.appfuse.webapp.listener.StartupListener is exactly what I was looking
for, however,
System.setProperty("user.timezone","GMT");
works on Jetty but not Tomcat, but
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
works on both (win32 and Linux Tomcat, with a v1.5 JRE).
Thanks Matt!
-nate
mraible wrote:
>
> Maybe in StartupListener do System.setProperty("user.timezone",
> "GMT")? I don't know if that will work, but it seems like it might.
>
> Matt
>
> On 11/1/07, Nate Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> In my application, I'm allowing users to change the timezone used to
>> display
>> Date's to suit their needs, and I'd like to have the JVM run with GMT
>> timezone to preserve my sanity and portability. Some googling led me to
>> an
>> old blog post of Matt's on the subject:
>>
>> http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/change_tomcat_s_timezone
>>
>> and I was able to use the same trick in my mvn.bat file
>>
>> set MAVEN_OPTS=-Duser.timezone=GMT
>>
>> to get 'mvn jetty:run-war' to run with GMT.
>>
>> My question: is there a way to do this programmatically so that I don't
>> have
>> to worry about the environment variables in each developer's setup and
>> test
>> and production? Timezone.setDefault() only operates on the current thread
>>
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6181786
>>
>> and using appfuse 2.0/spring mvc/hibernate, it's not clear to me if it's
>> possible to set that early enough in the startup to have the value
>> propagate
>> to all threads, much less in a way that portable between
>> tomcat/jetty/etc.
>> Any hints?
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