[Building Sakai] Default Time Zone

[Matthew Jones]

I believe as Beth is saying, the default TimeZone in Sakai BasicTimeService
is set by TimeZone.getDefault(). Reading google there are issues with
timezone data in windows so this may report incorrect. I would update to the
latest JVM and see what this returns. There is a program here from sun that
updates the timezone config files.

http://java.sun.com/javase/timezones/

The following short program on Windows Server 2008 prints out for me
correctly.
timezone is
sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/New_York",offset=-18000000, . . .

javac TestTimeZone.java;java TestTimeZone

TestTimeZone.java
--------------------------
import java.util.*;
public class TestTimeZone {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("timezone is " + TimeZone.getDefault());
System.out.println("time is " + new Date()); System.out.println("locale is"
+ Locale.getDefault());
  } }

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> The displayed timezone comes from the JRE, and I'm guessing it doesn't
> understand the timezone string you/Windows provided. When I look at
> the Sakai user preferences, the timezone string for Hong Kong is "Asia/
> Hong_Kong". So maybe try using that? Unfortunately I'm fairly windows
> illiterate, so I don't think I can be much help :-(
>
> - Beth
>
> On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:10 AM, samchow wrote:
>
> > Dear Beth,
> >
> > Thanks your reply. Our Sakai is running on a window xp server, and i
> > have
> > set the timezone of the os is  +8 Bejing, Hong Kong. In Sakai time
> > zone,
> > there are a lot of +8 district, how can i tell the sakai the local
> > time
> > zone is +8 Hong KOng?
> >
> > Man yThanks
> > Sam
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:49:03 -0500, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> > wrote:
> >> The system default time zone uses the time zone of your server.
> >> User's
> >> can set their own default time zone in Preferences (My Workspace ->
> >> Preferences -> Time Zone).
> >>
> >> - Beth
> >>
> >> On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:29 AM, Sam Chow wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I wanna ask how to set the default time zone, Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Sam
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