Monday, February 18, 2008

Calculate time according to Locale in JAVA

We Often get confuse in calculating time ?
For eg: If I ask you what is the Time in New York by now? If you are not in New York, then it will be a problem? Here is the code that can be used to find time in any part of the world..Enjoy..!!!


/**
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*
*This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
*it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
*the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
*
*This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
*but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
*MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
*GNU General Public License for more details.
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*@author JovialJava
*/
package com.jovialjava.blog.utils;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class TimeAsPerLocale {
 
 private static long NEW_YORK_OFFSET = -5L*60L*60L*1000L;
 private static long SINGAPORE_OFFSET = 8L*60L*60L*1000L;
 private static long INDIA_OFFSET = (long)(5.5*(60L*60L*1000L));
 
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  Date date = new Date();
  Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance( );
  c.setTime(date);
  /**
   * Getting the CURRENT LOCALE OFFSET from GMT
   */
  int offset = c.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET);
  /**
   * Getting the GMT time
   */
  long GMTTime = date.getTime( ) - offset;
  /**
   * New York Time = GMT - 5
   */
  long newYorkTime = GMTTime + NEW_YORK_OFFSET;
  /**
   * Singapore Time = GMT + 8
   */
  long singaporeTime = GMTTime + SINGAPORE_OFFSET;
  /**
   * India Time = GMT + 5.5
   */
  long indiaTime = GMTTime + INDIA_OFFSET;
  
  /**
   * Display and formatting
   */
  DateFormat df = DateFormat.getInstance( );
  System.out.println("GMT Time    : " + df.format(new Date(GMTTime)));
  System.out.println("New York Time   : " + df.format(new Date(newYorkTime)));
  System.out.println("Singapore Time   :"  + df.format(new Date(singaporeTime)));
  System.out.println("India Time    : " + df.format(new Date(indiaTime)));

  }
}

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