setting the default Timezone

[nxs]

My application always uses the same Timezone.
Can I set this in any of the deployment descriptors, JBoss configuration files etc?
If I set it programatically that will change the whole app server won't it?
This could be OK (just about), if so where is a good initialization location?

[nxs]

Mork calling Orson...come in Orson.

[maharg]

would appreciate a reply to this one

[schrouf]

Your timezone settings are determined on the operation system level, not within jboss.

Regards
Ulf

[nxs]

I had given up hope!!

the software may be installed on customer machines, running other applications, so it's no good relying on the OS.
I repeat - the TimeZone MUST always be the same (GMT)

I have created a ServletContextListener and set the timezone in there.

TimeZone.setDefault( TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));

in web.xml :-


<listener-class>MyServletContextListener</listener-class>


I guess that the scope of that change is just my application due to JBoss using a different class loader for each application.

Everything seems OK at the moment, but it doesn't feel quite right to me.

[nxs]

This was OK until we upgraded to java 1.5.
It seems that Thread locals may be used to store the default in some circumstances.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6352812

Surely you should be able to have to have 10 applications running on an app server, with 10 different default timezones!