Re: Possible to treat time in milliseconds as a different time zone?
On 21.05.2013 16:58, laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
I'm using Java 6. I'm trying to see if there's a simple way to
convert a long varaible (the number of milliseconds since 1970) to a
timezone other than GMT.
As others have said already that is not necessary. You need to
distinguish two concepts:
1. point in time: this is represented by a number of milliseconds since
a particular point in time in history.
2. representation of a point in time for various audiences (language,
time zone).
Ideally internally to an application you use concept number 1 _all_ the
time and make use of concept 2 when appropriate (e.g. when presenting a
point in time to the user or writing it into a logfile).
Can I parse the time zone string to get the number of hours
difference and then just add that? Grateful for any elegant
solutions.
You can - but it's the wrong approach.
Cheers
robert
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