[ajug-members] Tomcat Timezone

[Christopher Fowler]

Hello,

I configured one of my servers for Central time and restarted it.  When
I logged into the web application all dates in the DB were being stored
at CDT+1.  I tested MySQL with now() and I found out that the
application was setting the date explicitly via:

       Timestamp timestamp = new java.sql.Timestamp(
System.currentTimeMillis() );

For some odd reason Java was still in EDT.  I fixed with this command:


env TZ=US/Central /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat restart

My question is why did changing /etc/localtime on the server and
restarting not put Java into CDT?  Is there something I need to turn on?

Thanks,
Chris