Finding time

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Oxnard - 19 Jun 2005 18:24 GMT

I have the number of micro seconds from the UNIX epoch time 00:00:00 UTC 1
Jan 1970. (1092727073895638 usec)
I want to know the time in CST.

I have been trying to work with the Calendar class and GregorianCalendar.
But I am not quite getting it. Could someone give me an idea of what I need
to do.

Thanks
Ox

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Andrew Thompson - 19 Jun 2005 18:51 GMT

> I have the number of micro seconds from the UNIX epoch time 00:00:00 UTC 1
> Jan 1970. (1092727073895638 usec)
> I want to know the time in CST.

What does the 'C' stand for? Central or China (or..)?

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Remi Arntzen - 20 Jun 2005 01:39 GMT

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#setTime(java.uti
l.Date)
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#setTimeZone(java
.util.TimeZone)
You shouldn't use CST becuase it can mean either "Central Standard
Time" or "China Standard Time"

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RC - 21 Jun 2005 22:12 GMT

> I have the number of micro seconds from the UNIX epoch time 00:00:00 UTC 1
> Jan 1970. (1092727073895638 usec)
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> But I am not quite getting it. Could someone give me an idea of what I need
> to do.

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(
TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"), // +00:00
Locale.getDefault());

cal.setTime(new Date((long)1092727073895638));

public String printDate(Calendar cal) {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("CST")); // -06:00
// what happen when change to CDT (Central Daylight Time, -05:00) ?
return(sdf.format(cal.getTime()));
}

BTW (By the way) China is CCT (China Coastal Time) +08:00, not CST.

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