Question

I am facing a problem while using Russian locale, Time Zone part of the date is not converting to Russian.
i.e. if “Aug 10, 2010 4:02:09 PM Yakutsk Time” is the time,
it is converting to –
With Russian locale – “10.08.2010 16:02:09 Yakutsk Time 10”
With French Locale – “août 2010 16:02:09 Heure du Iakoutsk”

I am using following code (Russian locale is supported on my server)

     SimpleDateFormat formatterWithoutTimezone = new SimpleDateFormat(
    "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");

    SimpleDateFormat formatterServerTimezone = new SimpleDateFormat(
    "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");
    TimeZone serverTimezone = TimeZone.getDefault();
    formatterServerTimezone.setTimeZone(serverTimezone);
    String dateSrcStr = formatterWithoutTimezone.format(dateSrc) + " UTC";
    Date dateServerTimezone = formatterServerTimezone.parse(dateSrcStr);
    DateFormat displayFormatter = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.MEDIUM, locale);
    String formatedDate = displayFormatter.format(dateServerTimezone) + " "
    + serverTimezone.getDisplayName(locale);

Answer 1

Time Zone names are obtained by Java from the sun.util.resources.TimeZoneNamesBundle. There is a TimeZoneNames base resource class and there are localizations (see in rt.jar):

TimeZoneNames_de.class  
TimeZoneNames_en.class   
TimeZoneNames_en_CA.class  
TimeZoneNames_en_GB.class  
TimeZoneNames_en_IE.class  
TimeZoneNames_es.class  
TimeZoneNames_fr.class  
TimeZoneNames_it.class  
TimeZoneNames_sv.class  

So only the above languages have the localized Time Zone names. The following test confirms that most of the locales do not have localized time zone names:

TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Yakutsk");
for (Locale locale : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
    System.out.println(locale.getDisplayName() + timeZone.getDisplayName(locale));
}