TimeZone
@Serializable { simple=true }
const class TimeZone : Obj
TimeZone represents a region's offset from UTC and its daylight savings time rules. TimeZones are historical - UTC offset and DST rules may change depending on the year. The Fantom implementation of historical time zones is optimized to handle only year boundaries (so some historical changes which don't occur on year boundaries may not be 100% accurate).
The Fantom time zone database and naming model is based on the ZoneInfo database used by UNIX and Java. All time zones have both a simple name and a fullName. The fullName is the full identifier used in the zoneinfo database such as "America/New_York". The simple name is the city name only such as "New_York".
Use cur to get current default timezone for VM.
Also see docLang.
Find a time zone by name from the built-in database
Return name
Get the current default TimeZone of the VM
Get the duration of time added to UTC to compute standard time in this time zone
UTC time zone instance is "Etc/Utc"
Get the duration of time which will be added to local standard time to get wall time during daylight savings time (often 1hr)
Get the full name of this time zone as defined by the zoneinfo database
Get the abbreviated name during standard time
List all zoneinfo (Olson database) full names of the time zones available in the local time zone database
Get the abbreviated name during daylight savings time or null if daylight savings time not observed
Get the identifier of this time zone in the time zone database
Relative time zone instance is "Etc/Rel"
List the names of all the time zones available in the local time zone database
Default value is UTC
static TimeZone cur()
Get the current default TimeZone of the VM. The default timezone is configured by the Java or .NET runtime or it can be manually configured in "etc/sys/config.props" with the key "timezone" and any value accepted by fromStr. Once Fantom is booted, the default timezone cannot be changed.
static TimeZone defVal()
Default value is UTC.
Str? dstAbbr(Int year)
Get the abbreviated name during daylight savings time or null if daylight savings time not observed.
Duration? dstOffset(Int year)
Get the duration of time which will be added to local standard time to get wall time during daylight savings time (often 1hr). If daylight savings time is not observed then return null.
static new fromStr(Str name, Bool checked)
Find a time zone by name from the built-in database:
- First check for simple name like "New_York" or the zoneinfo full name "America/New_York"
- Attempt to match against timezone aliases, if a match is found return the canonical TimeZone instance
- If no matches are found and checked is false then return null, otherwise throw ParseErr.
Also see:
Str fullName()
Get the full name of this time zone as defined by the zoneinfo database. These names are formatted as "continent/location" where location is a major city within the time zone region. Examples of full names are "America/New_York" and "Europe/London".
static Str[] listFullNames()
List all zoneinfo (Olson database) full names of the time zones available in the local time zone database. This list is the full names only such as "America/New_York" and "Europe/London".
static Str[] listNames()
List the names of all the time zones available in the local time zone database. This database is stored in "{home}/lib/timezone.ftz" as a binary file. This list contains only the simple names such as "New_York" and "London".
Str name()
Get the identifier of this time zone in the time zone database. Name is the city name portion of the zoneinfo fullName identifier such as "New_York" or "London".
Duration offset(Int year)
Get the duration of time added to UTC to compute standard time in this time zone. The offset is independent of daylight savings time - during daylight savings the actual offset is this value plus dstOffset.
static TimeZone rel()
Relative time zone instance is "Etc/Rel". The relative timezone has a zero offset like UTC, but is used to normalize by time of day versus absolute time. See DateTime.toRel and docLang.
Str stdAbbr(Int year)
Get the abbreviated name during standard time.
virtual Str toStr()
Return name.
static TimeZone utc()
UTC time zone instance is "Etc/Utc".