displaying TimeZone in android

Question

I have implemented the below code in my app to display the date and time with timezone.

    Date d = new Date();
    SimpleDateFormat sdformat = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a z");
    sdformat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST"));
    System.out.println(sdformat.format(d));

If I run the above code in eclipse, I get the output as:

11/13/2015 07:23:56 PM EST

But for the same code in android device, I get the output as:

11/13/2015 07:23:56 PM GMT-5.00

Why is the difference, I need the date format to be displayed as:

11/13/2015 07:23:56 PM EST

try setLenient(false) http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html#setLenient(boolean) — Daniel Figueroa, Nov 13 '15 at 13:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '15 at 14:47

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TimeZone.getTimeZone(String id) is designed to use so-called Olson format among others as a parameter. Details you can find here.

EST time corresponds to the value "America/New_York", so

sdformat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));

will give the expected result.

answered Nov 13 '15 at 14:47

DmitryArc

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it worked. thank you so much @DimitryArc – sarath19 Nov 24 '15 at 16:09

displaying TimeZone in android

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