Re: daylight savings time change

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On Jan 11 Tim did spake thusly:

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:12 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
To maintain platform independence Java does not acquire the date time
from the OS, but does it's own calculations.

I presume you don't mean the JRE.  I've never seen any way that you
could tell it to use a particular timezone, so it must be able to tell
what your local one is by itself.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html

It gets the date from the host OS. It counts (same as unix) in milliseconds from 1 Jan 1970.

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