How to get ZoneId of SAST?

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I need to parse a time zone from a file in which zones are specified like this: UTC, SAST, etc.

Problem: While ZoneId.of("UTC") works well, I cannot do the same for SAST.

I get java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: SAST.

Question: How to convert "SAST" string to Java's ZoneId?

I know, I can replace "SAST" by "GMT+2" every time I receive it, but it would be great if there was a more elegant way.

java-8 java-time timezone java
2 Answers

According to oracle documentation, South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is Africa/Johannesburg. So you should use :

ZoneId.of("Africa/Johannesburg")
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DisplayZoneAndOffSet.java
package com.mkyong;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class DisplayZoneAndOffSet {

    public static final boolean SORT_BY_REGION = false;

    public static void main(String[] argv) {

        Map<String, String> sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();

        Map<String, String> allZoneIdsAndItsOffSet = getAllZoneIdsAndItsOffSet();

        //sort map by key
        if (SORT_BY_REGION) {
            allZoneIdsAndItsOffSet.entrySet().stream()
                    .sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByKey())
                    .forEachOrdered(e -> sortedMap.put(e.getKey(), e.getValue()));
        } else {
            // sort by value, descending order
            allZoneIdsAndItsOffSet.entrySet().stream()
                    .sorted(Map.Entry.<String, String>comparingByValue().reversed())
                    .forEachOrdered(e -> sortedMap.put(e.getKey(), e.getValue()));
        }

        // print map
        sortedMap.forEach((k, v) ->
        {
            String out = String.format("%35s (UTC%s) %n", k, v);
            System.out.printf(out);
        });

        System.out.println("\nTotal Zone IDs " + sortedMap.size());

    }

    private static Map<String, String> getAllZoneIdsAndItsOffSet() {

        Map<String, String> result = new HashMap<>();

        LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();

        for (String zoneId : ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds()) {

            ZoneId id = ZoneId.of(zoneId);

            // LocalDateTime -> ZonedDateTime
            ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = localDateTime.atZone(id);

            // ZonedDateTime -> ZoneOffset
            ZoneOffset zoneOffset = zonedDateTime.getOffset();

            //replace Z to +00:00
            String offset = zoneOffset.getId().replaceAll("Z", "+00:00");

            result.put(id.toString(), offset);

        }

        return result;

    }

}

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