How to set TimeZone in android for a particular date and time?

Question

I developed an application , in that i need to save the the event date and time. By default the time and date are in "America/Chicago" timezone format. Now, i need to convert them into user's device Time Zone format. but i got wrong format.

I did the following.

SimpleDateFormat curFormater1=new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy-hh:mm a");//10-23-2012-08:30 am

curFormater1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Chicago")); 

curFormater1.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

current output: TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Chicago") is 10-22-2012-10:00 PM TimeZone.getDefault() is 10-23-2012-08:30 AM

Required output TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Chicago") is 10-23-2012-08:30 AM TimeZone.getDefault() is 10-23-2012-07:00 PM

i want 10-23-2012-8:30 am as "America/chicago" timezone format.but, it treated as default timezone. — koti

oikonomopo oikonomopo · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12T12:32:37

Some examples

Convert time between timezone

Converting Times Between Time Zones

      import java.util.Calendar;
       import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
       import java.util.TimeZone;

  public class TimeZoneExample {
      public static void main(String[] args) {

    // Create a calendar object and set it time based on the local
    // time zone

    Calendar localTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    localTime.set(Calendar.HOUR, 17);
    localTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 15);
    localTime.set(Calendar.SECOND, 20);

    int hour = localTime.get(Calendar.HOUR);
    int minute = localTime.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
    int second = localTime.get(Calendar.SECOND);


    // Print the local time

    System.out.printf("Local time  : %02d:%02d:%02d\n", hour, minute, second);


    // Create a calendar object for representing a Germany time zone. Then we
    // wet the time of the calendar with the value of the local time

    Calendar germanyTime = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Germany"));
    germanyTime.setTimeInMillis(localTime.getTimeInMillis());
    hour = germanyTime.get(Calendar.HOUR);
    minute = germanyTime.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
    second = germanyTime.get(Calendar.SECOND);


    // Print the local time in Germany time zone

    System.out.printf("Germany time: %02d:%02d:%02d\n", hour, minute, second);
}
}

How to set TimeZone in android for a particular date and time?

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