Class NamedTimeZone

java.lang.Object
net.sf.saxon.number.NamedTimeZone

public class NamedTimeZone extends Object
This class attempts to identify a timezone name, given the date (including the time zone offset) and the country. The process is heuristic: sometimes there is more than one timezone that matches this information, sometimes there is none, but the class simply does its best. This is in support of the XSLT format-date() function.
  • Constructor Details

    • NamedTimeZone

      public NamedTimeZone()
  • Method Details

    • getTimeZoneNameForDate

      public static String getTimeZoneNameForDate(DateTimeValue date, String country)
      Try to identify a timezone name corresponding to a given date (including time zone) and a given country. Note that this takes account of Java's calendar of daylight savings time changes in different countries. The returned value is the convenional short timezone name, for example PDT for Pacific Daylight Time
      Parameters:
      date - the dateTimeValue, including timezone
      country - the two-letter ISO country code
      Returns:
      the short timezone name if a timezone with the given time displacement is in use in the country in question (on the appropriate date, if known). Otherwise, the formatted (numeric) timezone offset. If the dateTimeValue supplied has no timezone, return a zero-length string.
    • formatTimeZoneOffset

      public static String formatTimeZoneOffset(DateTimeValue timeValue)
      Format a timezone in numeric form for example +03:00 (or Z for +00:00)
      Parameters:
      timeValue - the value whose timezone is to be formatted
      Returns:
      the formatted timezone
    • getOlsenTimeZoneName

      public static String getOlsenTimeZoneName(DateTimeValue date, String country)
      Try to identify a timezone name corresponding to a given date (including time zone) and a given country. Note that this takes account of Java's calendar of daylight savings time changes in different countries. The returned value is the Olsen time zone name, for example "Pacific/Los_Angeles", followed by an asterisk (*) if the time is in daylight savings time in that timezone.
      Parameters:
      date - the dateTimeValue, including timezone
      country - the country, as a two-letter code
      Returns:
      the Olsen timezone name if a timezone with the given time displacement is in use in the country in question (on the appropriate date, if known). In this case an asterisk is appended to the result if the date/time is in daylight savings time. Otherwise, the formatted (numeric) timezone offset. If the dateTimeValue supplied has no timezone, return a zero-length string.
    • inSummerTime

      public static Boolean inSummerTime(DateTimeValue date, String region)
      Determine whether a given date/time is in summer time (daylight savings time) in a given region. This relies on the Java database of changes to daylight savings time. Since summer time changes are set by civil authorities the information is not necessarily reliable when applied to dates in the future.
      Parameters:
      date - the date/time in question
      region - either the two-letter ISO country code, or an Olsen timezone name such as "America/New_York" or "Europe/Lisbon". If the country code denotes a country spanning several timezones, such as the US, then one of them is chosen arbitrarily.
      Returns:
      true if the date/time is known to be in summer time in the relevant country; false if it is known not to be in summer time; null if there is no timezone or if no information is available for the specified region.