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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:56:24+00:00

I’m using GWT on the client (browser) and Joda Time on the server. I’d

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I’m using GWT on the client (browser) and Joda Time on the server. I’d like to perform some DB lookups bounded by the day (i.e. 00:00:00 until 23:59:59) that a request comes in, with the time boundaries based on the user’s (i.e. browser) timezone.

So I have the GWT code do a new java.util.Date() to get the time of the request, and send that to the server. Then I use Joda Time like so:

new DateTime(clientDate).toDateMidnight().toDateTime()

The trouble of course is that toDateMidnight(), in the absence of a specified TimeZone, will use the system’s (i.e. the server’s) TimeZone. I’ve been trying to find a simple way to pass the TimeZone from the browser to the server without much luck. In GWT I can get the GMT offset with:

DateTimeFormat.getFormat("Z").fmt(new Date())

which results in something like “-0400”. But Joda Time’s DateTimeZone.forID() wants strings formatted like “America/New_York”, or an integer argument of hours and minutes. Of course I can parse “-0400” into -4 hours and 0 minutes, but I’m wondering if there is not a more straightforward way of doing this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use java.util.Date’s getTimezoneOffset() method. It’s deprecated, but that’s pretty usual for Date handling in GWT currently.

    And AFAIR, you can specify something similar to “UTC+4” in Joda time.

    Update: I looked it up, and it’s “+04:00”. Or use DateTimeZone.forOffsetHours() or even forOffsetMillis().

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