Class ZoneId
- java.lang.Object
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- java.time.ZoneId
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- All Implemented Interfaces:
- Serializable
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- ZoneOffset
public abstract class ZoneId extends Object implements Serializable
A time-zone ID, such asEurope/Paris
.A
ZoneId
is used to identify the rules used to convert between anInstant
and aLocalDateTime
. There are two distinct types of ID:- Fixed offsets - a fully resolved offset from UTC/Greenwich, that uses the same offset for all local date-times
- Geographical regions - an area where a specific set of rules for finding the offset from UTC/Greenwich apply
ZoneOffset
. Callingnormalized()
on anyZoneId
will ensure that a fixed offset ID will be represented as aZoneOffset
.The actual rules, describing when and how the offset changes, are defined by
ZoneRules
. This class is simply an ID used to obtain the underlying rules. This approach is taken because rules are defined by governments and change frequently, whereas the ID is stable.The distinction has other effects. Serializing the
ZoneId
will only send the ID, whereas serializing the rules sends the entire data set. Similarly, a comparison of two IDs only examines the ID, whereas a comparison of two rules examines the entire data set.Time-zone IDs
The ID is unique within the system. There are three types of ID.The simplest type of ID is that from
ZoneOffset
. This consists of 'Z' and IDs starting with '+' or '-'.The next type of ID are offset-style IDs with some form of prefix, such as 'GMT+2' or 'UTC+01:00'. The recognised prefixes are 'UTC', 'GMT' and 'UT'. The offset is the suffix and will be normalized during creation. These IDs can be normalized to a
ZoneOffset
usingnormalized()
.The third type of ID are region-based IDs. A region-based ID must be of two or more characters, and not start with 'UTC', 'GMT', 'UT' '+' or '-'. Region-based IDs are defined by configuration, see
ZoneRulesProvider
. The configuration focuses on providing the lookup from the ID to the underlyingZoneRules
.Time-zone rules are defined by governments and change frequently. There are a number of organizations, known here as groups, that monitor time-zone changes and collate them. The default group is the IANA Time Zone Database (TZDB). Other organizations include IATA (the airline industry body) and Microsoft.
Each group defines its own format for the region ID it provides. The TZDB group defines IDs such as 'Europe/London' or 'America/New_York'. TZDB IDs take precedence over other groups.
It is strongly recommended that the group name is included in all IDs supplied by groups other than TZDB to avoid conflicts. For example, IATA airline time-zone region IDs are typically the same as the three letter airport code. However, the airport of Utrecht has the code 'UTC', which is obviously a conflict. The recommended format for region IDs from groups other than TZDB is 'group~region'. Thus if IATA data were defined, Utrecht airport would be 'IATA~UTC'.
Serialization
This class can be serialized and stores the string zone ID in the external form. TheZoneOffset
subclass uses a dedicated format that only stores the offset from UTC/Greenwich.A
ZoneId
can be deserialized in a Java Runtime where the ID is unknown. For example, if a server-side Java Runtime has been updated with a new zone ID, but the client-side Java Runtime has not been updated. In this case, theZoneId
object will exist, and can be queried usinggetId
,equals
,hashCode
,toString
,getDisplayName
andnormalized
. However, any call togetRules
will fail withZoneRulesException
. This approach is designed to allow aZonedDateTime
to be loaded and queried, but not modified, on a Java Runtime with incomplete time-zone information.This is a value-based class; use of identity-sensitive operations (including reference equality (
==
), identity hash code, or synchronization) on instances ofZoneId
may have unpredictable results and should be avoided. Theequals
method should be used for comparisons.- Implementation Requirements:
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This abstract class has two implementations, both of which are immutable and thread-safe. One implementation models region-based IDs, the other is
ZoneOffset
modelling offset-based IDs. This difference is visible in serialization. - Since:
- 1.8
- See Also:
- Serialized Form
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Field Summary
Fields Modifier and Type Field and Description static Map<String,String>
SHORT_IDS
A map of zone overrides to enable the short time-zone names to be used.
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Method Summary
All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method and Description boolean
equals(Object obj)
Checks if this time-zone ID is equal to another time-zone ID.static ZoneId
from(TemporalAccessor temporal)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
from a temporal object.static Set<String>
getAvailableZoneIds()
Gets the set of available zone IDs.String
getDisplayName(TextStyle style, Locale locale)
Gets the textual representation of the zone, such as 'British Time' or '+02:00'.abstract String
getId()
Gets the unique time-zone ID.abstract ZoneRules
getRules()
Gets the time-zone rules for this ID allowing calculations to be performed.int
hashCode()
A hash code for this time-zone ID.ZoneId
normalized()
Normalizes the time-zone ID, returning aZoneOffset
where possible.static ZoneId
of(String zoneId)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
from an ID ensuring that the ID is valid and available for use.static ZoneId
of(String zoneId, Map<String,String> aliasMap)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
using its ID using a map of aliases to supplement the standard zone IDs.static ZoneId
ofOffset(String prefix, ZoneOffset offset)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
wrapping an offset.static ZoneId
systemDefault()
Gets the system default time-zone.String
toString()
Outputs this zone as aString
, using the ID.
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Field Detail
SHORT_IDS
public static final Map<String,String> SHORT_IDS
A map of zone overrides to enable the short time-zone names to be used.Use of short zone IDs has been deprecated in
java.util.TimeZone
. This map allows the IDs to continue to be used via theof(String, Map)
factory method.This map contains a mapping of the IDs that is in line with TZDB 2005r and later, where 'EST', 'MST' and 'HST' map to IDs which do not include daylight savings.
This maps as follows:
- EST - -05:00
- HST - -10:00
- MST - -07:00
- ACT - Australia/Darwin
- AET - Australia/Sydney
- AGT - America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
- ART - Africa/Cairo
- AST - America/Anchorage
- BET - America/Sao_Paulo
- BST - Asia/Dhaka
- CAT - Africa/Harare
- CNT - America/St_Johns
- CST - America/Chicago
- CTT - Asia/Shanghai
- EAT - Africa/Addis_Ababa
- ECT - Europe/Paris
- IET - America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- IST - Asia/Kolkata
- JST - Asia/Tokyo
- MIT - Pacific/Apia
- NET - Asia/Yerevan
- NST - Pacific/Auckland
- PLT - Asia/Karachi
- PNT - America/Phoenix
- PRT - America/Puerto_Rico
- PST - America/Los_Angeles
- SST - Pacific/Guadalcanal
- VST - Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
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Method Detail
systemDefault
public static ZoneId systemDefault()
Gets the system default time-zone.This queries
TimeZone.getDefault()
to find the default time-zone and converts it to aZoneId
. If the system default time-zone is changed, then the result of this method will also change.- Returns:
- the zone ID, not null
- Throws:
-
DateTimeException
- if the converted zone ID has an invalid format -
ZoneRulesException
- if the converted zone region ID cannot be found
getAvailableZoneIds
public static Set<String> getAvailableZoneIds()
Gets the set of available zone IDs.This set includes the string form of all available region-based IDs. Offset-based zone IDs are not included in the returned set. The ID can be passed to
of(String)
to create aZoneId
.The set of zone IDs can increase over time, although in a typical application the set of IDs is fixed. Each call to this method is thread-safe.
- Returns:
- a modifiable copy of the set of zone IDs, not null
of
public static ZoneId of(String zoneId, Map<String,String> aliasMap)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
using its ID using a map of aliases to supplement the standard zone IDs.Many users of time-zones use short abbreviations, such as PST for 'Pacific Standard Time' and PDT for 'Pacific Daylight Time'. These abbreviations are not unique, and so cannot be used as IDs. This method allows a map of string to time-zone to be setup and reused within an application.
- Parameters:
-
zoneId
- the time-zone ID, not null -
aliasMap
- a map of alias zone IDs (typically abbreviations) to real zone IDs, not null - Returns:
- the zone ID, not null
- Throws:
-
DateTimeException
- if the zone ID has an invalid format -
ZoneRulesException
- if the zone ID is a region ID that cannot be found
of
public static ZoneId of(String zoneId)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
from an ID ensuring that the ID is valid and available for use.This method parses the ID producing a
ZoneId
orZoneOffset
. AZoneOffset
is returned if the ID is 'Z', or starts with '+' or '-'. The result will always be a valid ID for whichZoneRules
can be obtained.Parsing matches the zone ID step by step as follows.
- If the zone ID equals 'Z', the result is
ZoneOffset.UTC
. - If the zone ID consists of a single letter, the zone ID is invalid and
DateTimeException
is thrown. - If the zone ID starts with '+' or '-', the ID is parsed as a
ZoneOffset
usingZoneOffset.of(String)
. - If the zone ID equals 'GMT', 'UTC' or 'UT' then the result is a
ZoneId
with the same ID and rules equivalent toZoneOffset.UTC
. - If the zone ID starts with 'UTC+', 'UTC-', 'GMT+', 'GMT-', 'UT+' or 'UT-' then the ID is a prefixed offset-based ID. The ID is split in two, with a two or three letter prefix and a suffix starting with the sign. The suffix is parsed as a
ZoneOffset
. The result will be aZoneId
with the specified UTC/GMT/UT prefix and the normalized offset ID as perZoneOffset.getId()
. The rules of the returnedZoneId
will be equivalent to the parsedZoneOffset
. - All other IDs are parsed as region-based zone IDs. Region IDs must match the regular expression
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9~/._+-]+
otherwise aDateTimeException
is thrown. If the zone ID is not in the configured set of IDs,ZoneRulesException
is thrown. The detailed format of the region ID depends on the group supplying the data. The default set of data is supplied by the IANA Time Zone Database (TZDB). This has region IDs of the form '{area}/{city}', such as 'Europe/Paris' or 'America/New_York'. This is compatible with most IDs fromTimeZone
.
- Parameters:
-
zoneId
- the time-zone ID, not null - Returns:
- the zone ID, not null
- Throws:
-
DateTimeException
- if the zone ID has an invalid format -
ZoneRulesException
- if the zone ID is a region ID that cannot be found
- If the zone ID equals 'Z', the result is
ofOffset
public static ZoneId ofOffset(String prefix, ZoneOffset offset)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
wrapping an offset.If the prefix is "GMT", "UTC", or "UT" a
ZoneId
with the prefix and the non-zero offset is returned. If the prefix is empty""
theZoneOffset
is returned.- Parameters:
-
prefix
- the time-zone ID, not null -
offset
- the offset, not null - Returns:
- the zone ID, not null
- Throws:
-
IllegalArgumentException
- if the prefix is not one of "GMT", "UTC", or "UT", or ""
from
public static ZoneId from(TemporalAccessor temporal)
Obtains an instance ofZoneId
from a temporal object.This obtains a zone based on the specified temporal. A
TemporalAccessor
represents an arbitrary set of date and time information, which this factory converts to an instance ofZoneId
.A
TemporalAccessor
represents some form of date and time information. This factory converts the arbitrary temporal object to an instance ofZoneId
.The conversion will try to obtain the zone in a way that favours region-based zones over offset-based zones using
TemporalQueries.zone()
.This method matches the signature of the functional interface
TemporalQuery
allowing it to be used as a query via method reference,ZoneId::from
.- Parameters:
-
temporal
- the temporal object to convert, not null - Returns:
- the zone ID, not null
- Throws:
-
DateTimeException
- if unable to convert to aZoneId
getId
public abstract String getId()
Gets the unique time-zone ID.This ID uniquely defines this object. The format of an offset based ID is defined by
ZoneOffset.getId()
.- Returns:
- the time-zone unique ID, not null
getDisplayName
public String getDisplayName(TextStyle style, Locale locale)
Gets the textual representation of the zone, such as 'British Time' or '+02:00'.This returns the textual name used to identify the time-zone ID, suitable for presentation to the user. The parameters control the style of the returned text and the locale.
If no textual mapping is found then the
full ID
is returned.- Parameters:
-
style
- the length of the text required, not null -
locale
- the locale to use, not null - Returns:
- the text value of the zone, not null
getRules
public abstract ZoneRules getRules()
Gets the time-zone rules for this ID allowing calculations to be performed.The rules provide the functionality associated with a time-zone, such as finding the offset for a given instant or local date-time.
A time-zone can be invalid if it is deserialized in a Java Runtime which does not have the same rules loaded as the Java Runtime that stored it. In this case, calling this method will throw a
ZoneRulesException
.The rules are supplied by
ZoneRulesProvider
. An advanced provider may support dynamic updates to the rules without restarting the Java Runtime. If so, then the result of this method may change over time. Each individual call will be still remain thread-safe.ZoneOffset
will always return a set of rules where the offset never changes.- Returns:
- the rules, not null
- Throws:
-
ZoneRulesException
- if no rules are available for this ID
normalized
public ZoneId normalized()
Normalizes the time-zone ID, returning aZoneOffset
where possible.The returns a normalized
ZoneId
that can be used in place of this ID. The result will haveZoneRules
equivalent to those returned by this object, however the ID returned bygetId()
may be different.The normalization checks if the rules of this
ZoneId
have a fixed offset. If they do, then theZoneOffset
equal to that offset is returned. Otherwisethis
is returned.- Returns:
- the time-zone unique ID, not null
equals
public boolean equals(Object obj)
Checks if this time-zone ID is equal to another time-zone ID.The comparison is based on the ID.
- Overrides:
-
equals
in classObject
- Parameters:
-
obj
- the object to check, null returns false - Returns:
- true if this is equal to the other time-zone ID
- See Also:
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Object.hashCode()
,HashMap
hashCode
public int hashCode()
A hash code for this time-zone ID.- Overrides:
-
hashCode
in classObject
- Returns:
- a suitable hash code
- See Also:
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Object.equals(java.lang.Object)
,System.identityHashCode(java.lang.Object)
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