Sending a date and timezone from GAE server to GWT client

Question

OK folks, I have been going around this problem for about 2 weeks now trying everything I can think of and looking at tons of answers on here that feel like they are going t

Answer 1

I have a similar issue with v2.4.

I think Riley Lark is right.

TimeZone.createTimeZone("Asia/Tokyo") did not work in GWT 2.4

However, I found I could get the Tokyo zone by using the browser's default setting via:

Date d = new Date();
TimeZone timezone = TimeZone.createTimeZone(d.getTimezoneOffset());

That is really what Riley Lark is suggesting for you since europeLondon has "std_offset": 0...

TimeZone timezone = TimeZone.createTimeZone(0);