Well, that's the approach I'd taken originally, but I found two problems with it:
1) I didn't like how that approach mixes the presentation layer into the business layer (ie, my data access objects shouldn't care what timezone the user is in) 2) I don't necessarily know ahead of time (ie, when fetching the data) what timezone the user is in What I'm aiming for is a solution that does all the timezone manipulation on the presentation/view layer so that my business objects don't have to worry about it. At least, I think that's what would make the most sense... Thanks Ryan Olson "Hajratwala, Nayan (N.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't delve too much into the details of your current approach, but > couldn't you do this fairly easily using the Calendar class... > Date fromDb = ResultSet.getDate(...); > Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(user's TimeZone, optionally user's > Locale); > cal.setTime(fromDb); > Now you can manipulate/display the values in the user's timezone.... ----Original Message----- From: Ryan Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:23 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [slightly OT] Time zone strategies Hi all, Although this problem isn't necessarily unique to struts, it's certainly something that many of you may have come across in building struts applications. I'm writing a CRUD-type app to manage news articles which will support users in various time zones. Individual articles have date/time stamps which are normalized to the server reference timezone as they are stored in the model layer. However, each user should see and modify the dates in his/her own timezone on the presentation layer, optionally specifying alternate timezones if desired. [...] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
