[jboss-user] [Beginners Corner] - Urgent : Time getting different than system time

In one of the method of one class which is deployed on JBOSS, I have written the following lines of code : SimpleDateFormat dateFormatterSecondPrecision = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy kk:mm:ss"); System.setProperty("user.timezone","America/Los_Angeles"); Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles")); String strCreatedDate=dateFormatterSecondPrecision.format(cal.getTime()); if(INFO) // used log4j log.info("..... strCreatedDate : "+strCreatedDate); java.util.Date createdDate=dateFormatterSecondPrecision.parse(strCreatedDate); if(INFO) log.info("..... createdDate : "+createdDate); The o/p : ..... strCreatedDate : 10/18/2007 13:32:33 ..... createdDate : Thu Oct 18 13:32:33 GMT 2007 But if I run the code soley, toatlly written a simple java class which contain the above 4-5 liines, The o/p is : ..... strCreatedDate : 10/18/2007 19:05:45 ..... createdDate : Thu Oct 18 19:05:45 IST 2007 The difference of 5.5 hrs is coming . Can anybody tell me where i m wrong? Thanks in advance View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4096579#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...