Re: TimeZone.getID() returns conflicting results

From: Greg B (russians_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: 17 Apr 2004 21:09:49 -0700

Sudsy <bitbucket44@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<4080DA21.8080409@hotmail.com>...
> Greg B wrote:
> <snip>
> > But yeah, the settings within Control Panel seem identical on both
> > machines, and even the Atomic Clock utility that I downloaded and
> > installed on both machines seem to be confirming that (there is a 1
> > hour difference in some of the times reported, but that still wouldn't
> > explain anything)
>
> It would explain everything! Think about it! If there's a difference
> of one hour then the machines are obviously in different time zones.
> One might be in DST while the other is not.
> More likely, from the way you've described the problem, one of them
> is in a timezone whose specification doesn't match anything in the
> Java or standards database. So it defaults to GMT (or UTC).
> Just a stab, but what's the ISO standard code for Australia/Central
> time?

If machines were obviously in different time zones, the atomic clock
utility would surely in its 'Standard Time Zone Name' and 'Daylight
Time Zone Name' display different timezone identifiers... but it
doesn't (shows AUS Eastern Standard Time and AUS Easter Daylight Time
respectively). Besides, if you forget about Java altogether, how many
different ways of specifying a timezone for a given machine can you
think of? Me, just one... by double-clicking on the clock in the tray
menu and then going to 'Time Zone' tab...

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