Question

When I execute getDefault() on a java.util.TimeZone object created from ColdFusion 9 I am getting “Pakistan Time”. We are in the eastern timezone and our server (Windows 2003) is reporting proper timezone. Where would ColdFusions JVM be getting this timezone?

TimeZone: Pakistan Time (Asia/Karachi)

Answer 1

try this: http://troymurray.blogspot.com/2007/12/coldfusion-timezone-change.html(deleted)

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ColdFusion Timezone Change

So I’ve been working on a component to accept data from whatever and insert it into our Oracle database, no big deal. But, I need to do this with date and times, which gets really sticky with Oracle. I noticed however that my ColdFusion function Now() was returning the wrong time, about 5 hours off, which corresponds to my timezone (-5).
I looked all through the ColdFusion Admin but wasn’t able to find anywhere to specify this. I then seem to remember that when I setup this server, and installed ColdFusion on it, that I had the wrong timezone set and somehow that must have been saved. Since ColdFusion relies on Java I needed to change the time zone with the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that ColdFusion runs. Here is how I did it:

1. First, find the correct timezone ID for your location. I found mine by going here.
2. Login to the ColdFusion Admin
3. Under Server Settings go to Java and JVM
4. Locate the JVM Arguments textarea
5. Add a space after the last character, then “-Duser.timezone=” and then your timezone ID.
6. Click the “Submit Changes” button
7. Restart the “ColdFusion 8 Application Server” service
8. Verify your time shows correctly now.