Get TimeZone offset value from TimeZone without TimeZone name

Question

I need to save the phone\'s timezone in the format [+/-]hh:mm

I am using TimeZone class to deal with this, but the only format I can get is the following:

Answer 1

@MrBean - I was in a similar situation where I had to call a 3rd-party web service and pass in the Android device's current timezone offset in the format +/-hh:mm. Here is my solution:

public static String getCurrentTimezoneOffset() {

    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();  
    Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(tz);
    int offsetInMillis = tz.getOffset(cal.getTimeInMillis());

    String offset = String.format("%02d:%02d", Math.abs(offsetInMillis / 3600000), Math.abs((offsetInMillis / 60000) % 60));
    offset = (offsetInMillis >= 0 ? "+" : "-") + offset;

    return offset;
}