In this example we shall show you how to get the current TimeZone using Calendar. The Calendar is an abstract class that provides methods for converting between a specific instant in time and a set of calendar fields such as YEAR, MONTH, DAY_OF_MONTH, HOUR. To get the current TimeZone using Calendar one should perform the following steps:
- Use
getInstance()API method of Calendar, in order to get a Calendar object, using the default time zone and locale. - Use
getTimeZone()API method of Calendar, that returns the TimeZone object associated with this calendar. The TimeZone represents a time zone offset, and also figures out daylight savings. - Use
getDisplayName()API method of TimeZone to get a long standard time name of this TimeZone suitable for presentation to the user in the default locale,
as described in the code snippet below.
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;
public class GetCurrentTimeZoneUsingCalendar {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
//get current TimeZone using
TimeZone tz = c.getTimeZone();
System.out.println("Current TimeZone is : " + tz.getDisplayName());
}
}
Output:
Current TimeZone is : Eastern European Time
This was an example of how to get the current TimeZone using Calendar in Java.
