set the timezone for the XMLGregorianCalendar

Question

I have a the XMLGregorianCalendar instance and I need to set the timezone to the "America/New_York". The class has a method to set the timezone. AS the Greenwich Mean Time is 4 hours ahead of Eastern Time, does it set like this to the "America/New_York" timezone?

gregorianCalendar.setTimezone(-4);

Per the [documentation](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/xml/datatype/XMLGregorianCalendar.html) the offset is in minutes. — OldProgrammer, May 28 '20 at 12:41
read this - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12137428/java-gregoriancalendar-change-timezone and avoid using legacy time functions if possible. — OldProgrammer, May 28 '20 at 14:14
@OldProgrammer yes I set the offfset to the minutes and works now. — Arefe, Jun 01 '20 at 16:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '20 at 16:36

I have come with this solution lately and works fine for me.

Date date = format.parse(beginTime);

        GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
        cal.setTime(date);

        XMLGregorianCalendar xmlGregCal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal);

        TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
        int minutes = timeZone.getOffset(cal.getTimeInMillis()) / 1000 / 60;
        xmlGregCal.setTimezone(minutes);

set the timezone for the XMLGregorianCalendar

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