Android :: Emulator - Set Timezone To Alaska
Apr 23, 2010
I meet a strange timezone issue when I debug my application on Android_2.1 SDK. I first start the emulator and set timezone to "Alaska" in Settings. I also search the internet and find Alaska is in GMT-9:00. If DST applied, it should be GMT-8:00. Then write some sample code like: TimeZone.getDefault().getOffset(0); // returns 36000000 (= 10 * 60 * 60 * 1000) TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-9:00").getOffset(0); // returns 32400000 (= 9 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
How does this happen? Why this same API getOffset with same parameter returns different value? You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at
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Mar 2, 2010
Anyone know anyway to get the update here in alaska. I have a tmobile card and i primarily use att. We have one tmobile hotspot up here think i could hit there network through that?
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Nov 14, 2010
I am trying to get phone's correct timezone. I tried String newTzID = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getID(); This is returning "America/Atikokan". But my phone's timezone is EST. Both of these have an offset of GMT -5 hours. But I actually need to differentiate between EST and "America/Atikokan", since "America/ Atikokan" doesn't have day light savings time. Is there a way to get the correct id?
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Jan 22, 2009
to dear all Android developers, I need to know the UTC bias of my phone to correct the UTC time information I got from a site. I have read earlier posts and already found the solution to get TimeZone information from the "System.currentTimeMillis();" method. However, I need to translate the TimeZone (as like, "Asia/Taipei") to the UTC bias that it has to be (as like, "UTC+8" or other formats). Does anyone know the actual API solution? I have surveyed android.util.TimeUtils and found nothing to do this. The worst solution may I have is to build a "TimeZone/UTC" database table to translate this..
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May 10, 2010
I've written an Android app that needs the short timezone name in which the handset is currently located.I'm using the following code: String timeZone = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getDisplayName(false, TimeZone.SHORT);When running in Chicago, this returns "CST". In New York, "EST". In Strasbourg, France, it's returning "HNEC" (Heure Normale de l'Europe Centrale in French).
The timezone in this location is referred to by some as "Central European Time" (see Wikipedia's Time zones of Europe).I'm passing timeZone off to a third-party system which very much insists on getting "CET" (not "HNEC"). Is there an API call I can rely on to return the three-letter (and, I think, "more modern") short timezone name? As my code runs in more and more locations, I'm guessing this problem is going to occur elsewhere, too. I'm really hoping to avoid maintaining some sort of map of three-letter to four-letter short timezone names.
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Aug 30, 2010
I am trying to implement time zone change in broadcast receiver but its not working .my requirment is if i change the time zone it will go to another activity using broad cast receiver can anybody give example
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Apr 8, 2012
I am trying to convert the results of timezone to text for use in textView. I am new ro android devloping,
Here is my current code:
Code:
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setText(tz);
but it gives me this error:
Code:
The method setText(CharSequence) in the type TextView is not applicable for the arguments (TimeZone). I understand the error, but I do not know how to convert the Timezone to "Eastern Standard Time" or "Pacific Standard Time" or whatever the case may be.
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Apr 22, 2014
I'm testing a hybrid phone/scanner that came from China and I noticed the time was wrong on it (we don't use the phone part), so I went into time settings and it was set to automatic date & time and timezone, but when I turned off automatic timezone it said it was still China even though I've been using the device for a week. When I look up our IP on the web it says it's in the US in the correct state so I don't understand why Android is not locating the phone by IP.
I've noticed on other Android phones the time randomly goes incorrect when off cell service (like on my old Droid 2 or Galaxy Tab which I keep the cell service off for), so this appears to be a bug in Android. Is there a way I can smack the phone so it does it automatically or do I always have to expect Google not to do this right and make me have to manually set the timezone (and sometimes the time)?
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Aug 9, 2010
the different timezones you cannot always answer in 24 hours, but atm I am really asking myself in which timezone do you actually live? Is it in a parallel universe where the time lasts forever? That would definitively explain why you only post 1 answer in a week. OK answer might be the wrong word, you sum up the obvious. So Jeff plz tell me that I am right otherwise you should perhaps rethink if you are the right person for this job.
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Nov 23, 2010
I have been lurking for a few months now but have finally registered as i have an issue i just cant figure out. Me and the wife both have a Desire. When the time is set to automatically update from the network it keeps changing to GMT -8 Las Vegas time. it even says Las Vegas in the current clock.(and i cant delete it We have never manually changed the clock to Vegas time. The freaky thing is that we used to live in Las Vegas, BUT we didn't get our Desire's until moving back to the UK. I have made sure all my router, modem and PC settings are all GMT UK Time. the only thing that i can think is it is Gmail doing it as we made our Gmail account whilst in Las Vegas. its very annoying as when it changes to Vegas time obviously all our alarms and calender entries go "pete tong".
Also if i set the clock to manual it loses time pretty quickly as i left the wifes on auto and mine manual and within a few days mine had dropped 2 or 3 mins. We have the same gmail account synced to both phones. we also use Launcher Pro I thnk that is all the info i have for now.
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Apr 23, 2010
is anyone having trouble changing the timezone using the 1.6 No Twiz Rom? My phone seems to be stuck on Eastern Timezone and it wont let me adjust the timezone in prompt or manual setting mode.I tried rebooting my phone a few times and after a full day of use, it's still won't change to the correct timezone
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May 16, 2014
i generated a tzdata file with the new 2014c timezone file from IANA to reflect a change in my country DST
i pushed the file to /system/usr/share/zoneinfo and changed the
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Oct 29, 2010
I am using milestone Android 2.1, user from Singapore. Everytime i took a new photo, the time stamp for the photo will be in different timezone (greenwich time), tried set different timezone in setting and reboot the milestone but still got no luck to change the timestamp, anyone met this problem?
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Sep 27, 2009
The timezone for New Caledonia is missing from android. It is GMT +11 with NO daylight saving time. Android auto-detects me in NewCaledonia on my Hero but automatically uses Magadan (GMT+11) and applies +1 hour of daylight saving time to it, so, it shows the wrong time... If I manually set the time back one hour, incoming SMS time is wrong and I have a problem of time with google calendar sync too. I had a look to Donut using SDK 1.6: it still has a problem with missing NewCaledonia timezone. So I went to android 1.6-rc1 source folder in /development/tools/ zoneinfo and found what seems to be a 2008h version. I ran the generate script and got the two files: zoneinfo.dat and zoneinfo.
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Nov 4, 2010
Is there a way to get the Timezone given the name of a Country? I use getCountryName() in Maps to get the name of the Country.
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Aug 6, 2010
I created a sqlite database to store playlists for a media player I am developing because of extended feature (rather than using the Content Provider). It works perfectly on the 1.6 emulator but FCs on anything higher than 2.0... what has changed that I need to know about as far as opening databases in SDK 2.0+? Here is the logcat.
CODE:.............
Here is the dbhelper class
CODE:................
why can't stackoverflow just use tags like a normal syntax highlighter.
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May 19, 2009
Unable to play youtube videos on SDK 1.5 emulator - but playing well on SDK 1.0 emulator. Can you update the source....
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Apr 13, 2010
Finally strace gave me this:
CODE:................
And several other attempts to call "link" that also fail (sshfs does not support hard links).
Is it possible to change the emulator's behavior to create lock files somewhere in /tmp (using some hash of image path as lock file name)? I am OK to try this myself: which repositories from https://android.git.kernel.org/ are necessary to rebuild the emulator alone, and where in the sources is the code responsible for image locks?
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Apr 20, 2009
I need to run several emulator instances to test my application. When i try to run instances using emulator -data <path> option, the emulator crashes.
I got a MS Visual Studio window informing that emulator throws a "unhandled win32 exception".
The exception message in the debugger (MS Visual Studio 2008) is: "Unhandled exception at 0x77c4706c in emulator.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x03216848"
The emulator runs normally without "-data" option.
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Nov 1, 2010
I am getting the following error when I try running my program in the emulator:
emulator: ERROR: the user data image is used by another emulator. aborting`
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Apr 8, 2009
Is there a way to reload an Android application in the emulator without closing the emulator, saving any code changes, and running the emulator again? If I make even a simple change to the layout, it takes about 30 seconds by time I run it in Eclipse and Android "boots", and I can unlock the emulator to run the application. Is there any way to shorten this time when making changes, or is it something I just have to deal with?
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Mar 16, 2010
I downloaded the most recent version of Android for linux (android-sdk_r05-linux_86.tgz). I was trying to use the the Android Ant task(s) for packaging, building, and deploying my code. I should mention that I'm running AMD64, but have the 32-bit libraries installed. The Android Ant tasks are all broken.
First, the start-emulator task never gets the emulator running. It does get past starting adb, but then just sits there.
Second, the SDK is missing the aapt binary in the tools directory. So, the example notepad sample application will not even package correctly.
I have all the dependencies configured for Android. I can run it from the command line just fine.I assume the Ant code is out of sync with the recent SDK updates. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? At this point, I'm considering writing my own Python scripts to interact with the Android SDK. Ugh.
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Sep 24, 2010
In my dummy application i want to send MMS. But i don't know how to check it.I know that we can send SMS from one emulator to another but, is it possible for MMS? If yes then how it can be done.
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Feb 10, 2010
I intend to use the Android Emulator to send/receive SMS. I send SMS to the emulator using the sms send command. I'm aware of emulators being able to converse with each other over SMS but would it possible to receive that the SMS reply sent from an Android Emulator on a external TCP port?
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Mar 23, 2010
I know root is new for the eris but what do you guys perfer. The one cost 3.99 in the market and the other is free. Is there a difference?
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Nov 21, 2009
Is there an MS-DOS emulator for android 2.0? If not, will there ever be?
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May 21, 2009
I have a GPS app that gets the GPS fixes and prints it in the ADB logs. The app was working fine with 1.1 SDK. WIth 1.5 SDK emulator I see that the app does not receive any location updates after receiveing the 1st location. I have LocationListener as well as GPSStatusListener aded to my code and none of the listeners gets called. SO my app kind of waits forever for the next location or an error. 05-21 23:27:35.554: ERROR/fta_gps(740): gpsTest.java: 438:onGpsStatusChanged, event 3 05-21 23:27:36.564: INFO/fta_gps(740): gpsTest.java: 294:onLocationChanged 05-21 23:27:36.583: INFO/fta_gps(740): gpsTest.java:581:TimeStamp is: Dec 31, Wed 05-21 23:27:36.593: INFO/fta_gps(740): gpsTest.java:551:DateStamp is: 11:59:59pm 1969 05-21 23:27:36.724: INFO/fta_gps(740): gpsTest.java:359:Location changed : Latitude: 38.99941 Longitude: -77.08595 Altitude: 0.0 Speed: 0.0
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May 23, 2010
after downloading the new Android 2.2 SDK I tested some of my more CPU- intensive code with the integrated emulator, hoping to see some of the promised performance improvements also in the emulator. But to my disappointment the apps run just as fast/slow as with Android 2.1. Did I miss something? Is the JIT not activated or integrated in the emulator of the SDK 2.2?
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Aug 1, 2010
I'm pretty happy with the performance of the PSX emulator on my new Captivate. But why is there no N64? It seems like the natural progression of things. As much as I like FFVII on the Android, I would like it even more if I could play Ocarina of Time too.
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Sep 17, 2010
I want to develop an android application without having to purchase an android phone,
1) Is there an android emulator on the mac? the same as on windows?
2) is it better to develop on an android app on a pc, or a mac? same?
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