I am working on a project wherer i have limited zoneid and i am getting zoneoff set from front-end so that's why i want to convert time off set into zoneid in java. is there any way to convert zoneoffset into zone id.
3 Answers
ZoneOffset
is a kind of ZoneId
! See the declaration in the documentation.
public final class ZoneOffset
extends ZoneId
There is no need for any extra steps. You can directly pass ZoneOffset
objects to things that expects ZoneId
s.
If what you actually want to do is to find a region-based zone ID, e.g. Europe/London
, from solely a ZoneOffset
, there will likely be multiple such IDs that have the offset right now, or at any other particular instant.
To find the list of region-based IDs that is at a specified offset at a particular instant, you can do:
ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds().stream()
.map(ZoneId::of)
.filter(id -> id.getRules().getOffset(theSpecifiedInstant).equals(theSpecifiedOffset))
.collect(Collectors.toList());
// or just .toList() in Java 16+

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I think it is the full code – Ankitgiri2411 Jun 07 '23 at 09:37
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import java.time.ZoneId; import java.time.ZoneOffset; public class ZoneOffsetToZoneIdExample { public static void main(String[] args) { ZoneOffset zoneOffset = ZoneOffset.ofHours(2); // Example ZoneOffset ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds().stream() .map(ZoneId::of) .filter(zone -> zone.getRules().getOffset(zoneOffset).equals(zoneOffset)) .findFirst() .orElse(null); System.out.println("ZoneId: " + zoneId); } } – Ankitgiri2411 Jun 07 '23 at 09:37
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but when i am implementing this logic i am getting error for getOffset. – Ankitgiri2411 Jun 07 '23 at 09:38
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@Ankitgiri2411 You should pass an `Instant` to `getOffset`. The offsets of timezones is not constant. e.g. it could be UTC+1 today and UTC+2 tomorrow. So *when's* offset are you trying to compare with? Create an `Instant` and pass that in. – Sweeper Jun 07 '23 at 09:41
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@Ankitgiri2411 Is there a datetime/instant associated with the offset you receive? Or I=is that supposed to be the *current* offset? If so, pass `Instant.now()`. – Sweeper Jun 07 '23 at 09:43
Use the available ZoneRules
to find a suitable matching zone. There's no direct conversion ZoneOffset
represents a fixed offset
from UTC, whereas a ZoneId
represents a geographical region with varying offsets due to daylight saving time changes. Based on the above you can build one yourself to make that conversion. Here is a template

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2"There's no direct conversion" - well there is in that `ZoneOffset` extends `ZoneId`... – Jon Skeet Jun 07 '23 at 07:53
Java 11+: ZoneRules.getStandardOffset(Instant)
Gets the standard offset for the specified instant in this zone.
This provides access to historic information on how the standard offset has changed over time. The standard offset is the offset before any daylight saving time is applied. This is typically the offset applicable during winter.
That means if you have a ZoneId
, you can get its rules by calling getRules()
and get the standard offset of the Instant
you provide to getStandardOffset(Instant)
. You could use Instant.now()
as soon as you have the ZoneId
from the front end.
example
public static void main(String[] args) {
// example input
ZoneId perth = ZoneId.of("Australia/Perth");
// define an Instant
Instant now = Instant.now();
// determine the standard offset from the rules of the zone
ZoneOffset perthStandardOffset = perth.getRules()
.getStandardOffset(now);
// and print it
System.out.println(
String.format("%s has a standard offset of %s at %s",
perth, perthStandardOffset,
now.atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC))
);
}
output
Australia/Perth has a standard offset of +08:00 at 2023-06-07T07:41:38.082053Z

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