Re: date comes up wrong..

The date on the client machine is the correct date..
I'm using jdk 1.3.1_03-b03 and redhat 7.2

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

> Calendar.getInstance() will give you a calendar set to the current
> date/time of the client machine.  So if the date is wrong I would think it
> has to be because the system date/time is wrong.
>
> Which JDK & OS are you using?
>
>
> DR
>
>
> At 10:17 AM 8/27/2002 -02-30, you wrote:
> >Hi, I'm getting the date via
> >
> >/* Gets the current date and returns it as a string */
> >     private String getCurDate()
> >     {
> >         Calendar d = Calendar.getInstance();
> >         Date d1 = d.getTime();
> >         DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
> >         return df.format(d1);
> >     }
> >but it always thinks its a day ahead.. (like it thinks today is the 28th
> >but its the 27th, and the date on my server and the machine that the
> >applets comes up on says its the 27th also..)
> >
> >why is it doing that?
> >
> >I also tried
> >/* Gets the current date and returns it as a string */
> >     private String getCurDate()
> >     {
> >         Date d1 = new date
> >         DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
> >         return df.format(d1);
> >     }
> >
> >but that gave the same result..
> >
> >thanks
> >sohaila
>
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