java.util.TimeZone.setRawOffset() Method

Description

The setRawOffset(int offsetMillis) method is used to set the base time zone offset to GMT. This is the offset to add to UTC to get local time.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.TimeZone.setRawOffset() method.

public abstract void setRawOffset(int offsetMillis)

Parameters

offsetMillis − This is the given base time zone offset to GMT.

Return Value

NA

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.TimeZone.setRawOffset()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class TimeZoneDemo {
   public static void main( String args[] ) {

      // create time zone object 
      TimeZone tzone = TimeZone.getDefault();

      // set raw offset
      tzone.setRawOffset(10000);

      // checking offset value
      System.out.println("Offset value is :" +tzone.getRawOffset());
   }    
}

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

Offset value is :10000

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