java.util.SimpleTimeZone.getDSTSavings() Method

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Description

The getDSTSavings() method is used to return the amount of time in milliseconds that the clock is advanced during daylight saving time.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.SimpleTimeZone.getDSTSavings() method.

public int getDSTSavings()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

The method call returns the number of milliseconds the time is advanced with respect to standard time.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.SimpleTimeZone.getDSTSavings()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class SimpleTimeZoneDemo {
   public static void main( String args[] ) {
      
      // create simple time zone object 
      SimpleTimeZone stobj = new SimpleTimeZone(720,"US");

      // check DST saving
      int dstsaving = stobj.getDSTSavings();    
      System.out.println("DST saving : " + dstsaving);
   }    
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

DST saving : 0