How to make Date locale-independent?

Question

I have a db, that stores dates in OleDateTime format, in GMT timezone. I\'ve implemented a class, extending Date in java to represent that in class

Answer 1

Here's a snippet I used to calculate the GMT offset from the Calendar instance and format it. I appreciate all the help I've gotten from this site, its nice to contribute. I hope this helps someone somewhere. Enjoy.

Calendar calInst = Calendar.getInstance();

//calculate the offset to keep calendar instance GMT
int gmtOffsetMilli = calInst.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET);
long gmtOffsetHr = TimeUnit.HOURS.convert(gmtOffsetMilli, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

calInst = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT " + gmtOffsetHr));