TimeZones and Timezone offsets in Blackberry and J2me

In J2me , a class called TimeZone is used to determine offset of timezone.

First get all the Ids by

tring ids[]= TimeZone.getAvailableIDs();
for(int i=0;i<0;i++){
    // will give you the  TimeZone offsets such as +5,-4 etc.
    TimeZone.getTimeZone(ids[i]).getRawOffset();
}

// will return the timeZone offset set in the device.
TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();

TimeZone class is applicable for both Blackberry and J2ME


From Blackberry 4.6 a new class TimeZoneUtilities is intoduced.

Just use the following code to retrieve array of Timezones

     
String str[]=TimeZoneUtilities.getDisplayNames(0);

The above code will give the list of important places and their corresponding timezones where as TimeZone class willl give only TimeZones (without city name).