Java Time Zone is messed up

Question

I am running a Tomcat application, and I need to display some time values. Unfortunately, the time is coming up an hour off. I looked into it and discovered that my defaul

Answer 1

It may help to double-check the timezone rules your OS is using.

/usr/bin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | less

This file should contain your daylight savings rules, like this one for the year 2080:

/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 31 01:00:00 2080 UTC = Sun Mar 31 02:00:00 2080 BST isdst=1 gmtoff=3600

You can compare this with the timezone rules you think you should be using. They can be found in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.