Question

I have following method which convert my custom DMY (date,month,year) object to Date.

public static Date serverCreateDateFromDMY(DMY pDMY, TimeZone pTimeZone)
    {
        Calendar vCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(pTimeZone);
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, pDMY.getYear());
            // Below line is because DMY month counts are 1-indexed
            // and Date month counts are 0-indexed
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, pDMY.getMonthOfYear() - 1);
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, pDMY.getDayOfMonth());
        System.out.println(vCalendar.getTime());
        TimeUtilsServer.zeroCalendarHoursAndBelow(vCalendar);
        System.out.println(vCalendar.getTime());
        return vCalendar.getTime();
    }


public static void zeroCalendarHoursAndBelow(Calendar pToZero)
    {
        pToZero.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        pToZero.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        pToZero.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        pToZero.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
    }

to serverCreateDateFromDMY() method, I am passing these arguments : DMY=20120424, and TimeZone is : America/New_York. Application is running locally in my timezone which is IST.

based in above inputs, following output is printed.

Tue Apr 24 14:43:07 IST 2012

Tue Apr 24 09:30:00 IST 2012

so as you see that in last output time is not zeroed out. any suggestions please?

@Marko, yes I come to know about DateFormat and I tried following example. but still date is printed with time and not zeroing out.

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
        Calendar vCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2012);

        vCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, 4 - 1);
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 24);
        DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
        df.setTimeZone(tz); 
        System.out.println(df.format(vCalendar.getTime()));

         vCalendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,     vCalendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, vCalendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.MINUTE));
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, vCalendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.SECOND));
        vCalendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND,   vCalendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.MILLISECOND));
        System.out.println(df.format(vCalendar.getTime()));

Answer 1

… and you are 9:30h ahead of NY time. You set the time to midnight NY time and read it out as time in your zone. Note that getTime returns a Date, which is not timezone-configurable. You’ll need DateFormat if you want to specify the timezone for which you print the result.