[LANG-1255] need a version of DateUtils.toCalendar that preserves or sets TimeZone

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.5
• Component/s: lang.time.*
• Assignee: Benedikt Ritter
• Reporter: Mike Calmus
• Created: 04/Aug/16 16:46
• Updated: 19/Oct/16 07:00
• Resolved: 02/Oct/16 10:29

Description

DateUtils.toCalendar creates a Calendar using .getInstance(). This results in a Calendar in the machine's timezone. The Date object passed in may not be in that same timezone. Since the getTimezoneOffset method of Date is deprecated a new version of toCalendar that accepts a TimeZone would be appropriate:

    public static Calendar toCalendar(final Date date, final TimeZone tz) {
        final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
        c.setTime(date);
        return c;
    }

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #192