Question

I need to know whether the period defined by:

DateTime start;
DateTime end;

has a DST inside.

I am iterating over collection of periods defined by {start,end} and shifting start and end 24 hours forward in every iteration. The resulting period starts at midnight and ends at 1 ms before next midnight. I found that if the period has a daylight saving point inside the shift produces incorrect result, e.g:

having:

Duration targetDuration = new Duration(24*60*60*1000L-1);
DateTime start = new DateTime("2012-03-10T00:00:00.000-08:00");
DateTime end = new DateTime("2012-03-10T23:59:59.999-08:00");   

then the shift is done:

start = end.plusMillis(1);
end = start.plus(targetDuration);

produces:

start = "2012-03-11T00:00:00.000-08:00"
end = "2012-03-12T00:59:59.999-07:00"   

I wonder is there any standard API in JodaTime that can check whether the period of time has a DST inside?

Answer 1

Use the DateTimeZone.nextTransition method. If the start is less than the end DateTime, then at least one time zone transition has occurred in between. This does not account for rule changes vs. DST. That is, a time zone might have a new rule indicating that standard time has a new offset, and this would appear as a time zone transition.

if (start.getZone().nextTransition(start.getMillis()) < end.getMillis()) {
    // Time zone transition occurred, possibly due to DST
    ...
}