NO! It is NOT an incorrect result! The reason you get the result of
1963 when you use 1964 is because Reykjavik is 1 hour off from GMT then.
On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Barði Einarsson wrote:
Ken
If I use Atlantic/Reykjavik the code produces incorrect
results. So, it is a bug.
If I use GMT instead the code would work. That is a
work around for a bug.
Do you agree?
Best regards,
Bardi
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 13-Jan-09 17:59
To: Barði Einarsson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug ID 6342679: NSTimestamp Happy New Year Bug
Bardi,
OK - it took me all of 10 minutes to solve this.
1. You choose Atlantic/Reykjavik, not GMT, like we suggested.
2. In 1969, Iceland stopped respecting Daylight Savings Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=211&syear=1960
date in yearFromDate : 1968-01-01 00:00:00 Etc/GMT
yearFromDate : 1967
TimeZone:Atlantic/Reykjavik
date in yearFromDate : 1969-01-01 00:00:00 Etc/GMT
yearFromDate : 1969
If you had chosen GMT, where there's no shifts for daylight savings
time, it's always accurate.
Ken
On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Barði Einarsson wrote:
It is a bug:
run happyNewYear(1964)
output:
TimeZone:Atlantic/Reykjavik
date in yearFromDate : 1964-01-01 00:00:00 Etc/GMT
yearFromDate : 1963
package some.packagename;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import com.webobjects.foundation.NSTimeZone;
import com.webobjects.foundation.NSTimestamp;
public class HappyNewYear {
static {
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Atlantic/Reykjavik"));
NSTimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Atlantic/
Reykjavik"));
}
public static int yearFromDate(NSTimestamp date) {
if (null == date) {
return 0;
}
System.out.println("TimeZone:" +
TimeZone.getDefault().getID());
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(date);
System.out.println("date in yearFromDate : " + date);
int result = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
System.out.println("yearFromDate : " + result);
return result;
}
public static void happyNewYear(int year) {
NSTimestamp newYear = new NSTimestamp(year, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, null);
yearFromDate(newYear);
}
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Fri 09-Jan-09 15:23
To: Lachlan Deck
Cc: Barði Einarsson; WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List
Subject: Re: Bug ID 6342679: NSTimestamp Happy New Year Bug
Bardi,
I think the most important thing to understand about how dates are
moved around is that the value is always GMT based. Timezones are
there for convenience...
For instance, when you create a new timestamp with a timezone, the
timezone is used to adjust the date/time you sent in to GMT and the
GMT value is stored. When formatting a date or extracting day/month/
year from GregorianCalendar, the timezone is used WHEN FORMATTING THE
RESULT.
If you work with these tenets, things will hopefully be easier.
Ken
On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
On 09/01/2009, at 3:10 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:
I do exactly what you're doing all the time, and I do not have the
issue you're experiencing. One thing I do at the beginning of my
WOApplication subclass is this:
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
NSTimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
This will make sure that you're really working in GMT across the
board. Can you do the above and try your tests again?
Yep.
Behaves correctly - no way
Yes way :-)
NSTimestamp reports a timezone which is not used by
GregorianCalendar ??
GregorianCalendar does *not* change its timezone based on the date
passed to it. You are responsible for determining that. That's
nothing to do with NSTimestamp.
This is a difficult bug.
Just more a misunderstanding on your part.
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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