Java. Creating a date according to user timezone in web-application

Question

I have a Java web-application. In some places there is showing of dates. I want to display the date according to user timezone. How do I create a date for the show if I know the timezone the user? I use the class Date. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There is no standard way to do this. On client side, you may capture time using Java script and send that information to the server. On server side, you can covert the time to Coordinated Universal Time.