Returns: the human-readable name of this time zone in the given locale. Parameters: daylight - true specifying a Daylight Saving Time name, orįalse specifying a Standard Time name style - either LONG or SHORT locale - the locale in which to supply the display name. Locale of the search path, including Locale.ROOT, isįound, the name is returned. Locale search is performed.) If a time zone name in any Locale search path of ResourceBundle derivedįrom the specified locale is used. When looking up a time zone name, the default Saving Time name is returned (even if this TimeZone doesn't If the specified daylight is true, a Daylight Suitable for presentation to the user in the specified Returns a name in the specified style of this TimeZone Time' and 'China Standard Time'), and the Java platform can then only Use is deprecated because the same abbreviation is often usedįor multiple time zones (for example, 'CST' could be U.S.

(such as 'PST', 'CTT', 'AST') are also supported. + - TwoDigitHours: Digit Digit Minutes: Digit Digit Digit: one ofįor example, TimeZone.getTimeZone('GMT-8').getID() returns 'GMT-08:00'.įor compatibility with JDK 1.1.x, some other three-letter time zone IDs

NormalizedCustomID: GMT Sign TwoDigitHours : Minutes Sign: one of Zone ID is normalized in the following syntax: When creating a TimeZone, the specified custom time The specified string doesn't match the syntax, 'GMT' Transition schedule can be specified with a custom time zone ID. The format is locale independent and digits must be taken from theīasic Latin block of the Unicode standard. Hours and ten minutes ahead of GMT, respectively. For example, 'GMT+10' and 'GMT+0010' mean ten + - Hours: Digit Digit Digit Minutes: Digit Digit Digit: one ofĠ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hours must be between 0 to 23 and Minutes must beīetween 00 to 59.

The syntax of a custom time zone ID is:ĬustomID: GMT Sign Hours : Minutes GMT Sign Hours Minutes GMT Sign Hours Sign: one of Supported IDs, then a custom time zone ID can be specified to If the time zone you want is not represented by one of the You can use the getAvailableIDs method to iterate throughĪll the supported time zone IDs. TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone('America/Los_Angeles') Pacific Time zone is 'America/Los_Angeles'. You can also get a TimeZone using getTimeZoneĪlong with a time zone ID. For example, for a program running in Japan, getDefaultĬreates a TimeZone object based on Japanese Standard Time. Which creates a TimeZone based on the time zone where the program Typically, you get a TimeZone using getDefault In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.TimeZone represents a time zone offset, and also figures out daylight It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in EuropeĬountries: It is used in following countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

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