The java.util.Date object always references the machine's time zone.
Joda-Time cannot change this behaviour, but does ensure that the
correct millis is used.
Stephen
On 21/12/06, Dadi Ingolfsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> In my unit tests I have been using a helper function that creates a DateTime
> object with a specified DateTimeZone. I recently relocated to Denmark and
> now some of my unit tests fail because they were expecting GMT (Iceland is
> were I originally come from) in a formatted date string. The following
> investigating unit test shows my problem:
>
> …
>
> …
>
> public void
> test_ThatCreatingADateTimeWithAFixedZoneBehavesAsExpected()
>
> {
>
> DateTime dt = new DateTime(2006, 2, 11, 15, 0, 0, 0,
> DateTimeZone.forID("Atlantic/Reykjavik"));
>
>
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> assertEquals("11.02.2006-15:00:00:00-GMT",
> dt.toString("dd.MM.yyyy-HH:mm:ss:SS-z"));
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>
>
> assertEquals("Sat Feb 11 15:00:00 GMT 2006", dt.toDate().toString());
>
>
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> assertEquals("Sat Feb 11 15:00:00 GMT 2006", new
> Date(dt.getMillis()).toString());
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> }
>
> …
>
> …
>
>
>
> The assertEquals statements nr. 2 and 3 both fail because the result turns
> out to be "Sat Feb 11 15:00:00 GMT 2006", which is not what I expected! Am
> I doing something wrong here or should the conversion from DateTime to Date
> really use the machine´s time zone?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dadi.
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