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Asked: 2026-05-28T07:26:34+00:00

I send timestamps to my GWT client using GMT/Zulu time, with each string designated

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I send timestamps to my GWT client using GMT/Zulu time, with each string designated as such (ie. 2012-01-19T16:29:18Z, or 4:29pm GMT). How do I show this in the browser in the local timezone? So for me in CST I expect to see 10:29am.

If I do no formatting I get the date as 4:29pm, which I expect, If I use a TimeZone object of TimeZone.createTimeZone(0), I get for some reason 10:29PM (not AM as expected). I suppose I’m supposed to pass in something more meaningful than 0, but how do I obtain the right value for the where the browser is running?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can get the time-zone offset that is configured in the browser using: 

    Date d = new Date();
d.getTimezoneOffset();

    It won’t give you the timezone name, I don’t think that’s possible to get.

    Do you send the time as a timestamp, or string? I find the best approach is to send UTC timestamps to the client and then format them to whatever zone I need using DateTimeFormat/TimeZone. But I guess that if you are parsing the date string including the offset, you end up with a UTC timestamp anyway.

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