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Megha Vishwanath · Guest

Hi,

A jdk installation on my machine has picked up the time zone
Asia/Rangoon

My time zone is actually Asia/ Calcutta

Apparently, j2sdk1.4.2_05 does not even support Asia/Rangoon- MMT that
gets set by default to GMT.
ie., TimeZone tz=TimeZone.getTimeZone(MMT); tz.getDisplayName() is GMT

I have been trying to manipulate the timezone by setting the
user.timezone system property through this piece of code-

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Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

System.out.println("n TIME ZONE :"+
cal.getTimeZone().getDisplayName());
System.out.println("n TIME :"+ cal.getTime().toGMTString());
System.out.println("n user.timezone:
"+System.getProperty("user.timezone"));
System.out.println("n user.country:
"+System.getProperty("user.country"));
System.out.println("njava.home: "+System.getProperty("java.home"));

System.setProperty("user.timezone","Asia/Calcutta");

System.out.println("nuser.timezone:
"+System.getProperty("user.timezone"));
System.out.println("n New Time Zone:
"+TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName());

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The user.timezone only temporarily gets set only for the lifetime of
the program.
How can I permanantly change this value? Please help.

-Thanks
Megha.