How to Get the Name of TimeZone in Android

Question

I would like to show the "name" of timezone in my android program. Say if it is "GMT+8:00", then show "HongKong"; By searching, i find that the getDisplayName function should sever my purpose.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/TimeZone.html#getDisplayName(boolean, int, java.util.Locale)

However, in my own program, this function only shows "GMT+8:00" but when i use "getDisplayName" in the Google Open Source Project, it would show the name "HongKong" instead.

Does anyone know the reason behind this?

Answer 1

Try this

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
System.out.println(tz.getID());

getDisplayName returns timezone and getId returns timezone location name.

Answer 2

You can find out your current time zone by below code

private String getTimeZone() {
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getDefault());
        TimeZone zone = calendar.getTimeZone();
        return zone.getID();
}