DateSpinner bug?

[ericy]

Hi,
I am using the JIDE DateSpinner control to display time. The DateSpinner public interface specifies a method called setTimeZone() for setting the time zone and a method called getTimeZone() for getting it.

After creating my DateSpinner control I call the setTimeZone() to indicate in what time zone the time must be displayed. But it seems DateSpinner does not seem to take into account what ever time zone value I pass in. In fact getTimeZone() always return the default system time zone.

Is this a bug?

Please help!!

Eric.

[JIDE Support]

I could not notice the issue you mentioned. Attached is the test case I tested against 2.8.6. Would you please give it a try?

Thanks,

[ericy]

Please find attached a modified version of your DateSpinnerDemo illustrating the problem. Please read the embedded comments for more info.

[JIDE Support]

Are you expecting the time to be changed after the time zone is set? I'm afraid you have to do it on your end. You could invoke ((SpinnerDateModel) getModel()).setValue(newValue) to achieve your goal. The Calendar class has the similar design. You would get the same value on invoking Calendar#getTime() even after you set a different time zone.

Thanks,

[ericy]

You are right what I want the DateSpinner to do is to display the time in whatever time zone I specify.
I don't think calling getModel().setValue() is going to make any difference, as I still would be passing in a Date object which represents an absolute time.
If this is not possible what then is the point of having the setTimeZone() method?

[JIDE Support]

I'm afraid there is no easy way to achieve this since DateSpinner uses SpinnerDateModel as its model and SpinnerDateModel only takes Date as its field. The solution for now is that, you have to calculate the actual time by your Calendar.class then create a new Date() to demonstrate the new time. After the calculation, you would be able to set the model's value and let it show the correct time.

Thanks,