Changing timezone without changing time in Java

Question

I'm receiving a datetime from a SOAP webservice without timzone information. Hence, the Axis deserializer assumes UTC. However, the datetime really is in Sydney time. I've solved the problem by substracting the timezone offset:

Calendar trade_date = trade.getTradeDateTime();
TimeZone est_tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Australia/Sydney");
long millis = trade_date.getTimeInMillis() - est_tz.getRawOffset();
trade_date.setTimeZone( est_tz );
trade_date.setTimeInMillis( millis );

However, I'm not sure if this solution also takes daylight saving into account. I think it should, because all operations are on UTC time. Any experiences with manipulating time in Java? Better ideas on how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

I normally do it this way

Calendar trade_date_utc = trade.getTradeDateTime();
TimeZone est_tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Australia/Sydney");
Calendar trade_date = Calendar.GetInstance(est_tz);
trade_date.setTimeInMillis( millis );