Java TimeZone Create getUserTimeZoneDate(String userTimezone)

Description

get User Time Zone Date

License

Open Source License

Declaration

private static Date getUserTimeZoneDate(String userTimezone) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class Main {
    private static Date getUserTimeZoneDate(String userTimezone) { // use for unit testing of time zone related to creation date of modules
                                                                   // records
        Date date = new Date();
        System.out.println(date);
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
        // SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
        sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(userTimezone)); // replace timezine
                                                             // with user
                                                             // timezone
        String datestr = sdf.format(date);
        System.out.println(datestr);
        String[] datearr = datestr.split(" ");

        // datearr[4] contains user time zone format which is replaced by space.
        // so that new date function use system time zone format which is
        // already set at user session creation time
        String newstr = datestr.replace(datearr[4], " ");

        Date newdate = new Date(newstr);
        System.out.println(newdate);
        return newdate;
    }
}

Related

1. getTimeZoneList()
2. getTimezoneList()
3. getTimeZoneMap()
4. getTimeZoneOfTenant()
5. getTotalTimeZoneOffset(TimeZone zone)
6. testSimpleTimeZone()
7. toTimeZone(int gmtOffset)
8. toTimeZone(String value)
9. toTimeZone(String zone)