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Java Programming Tip: Specify the JVM time zone
December 7, 2015

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) time zone defaults to the machine's time zone, but it can be overridden from the command line:

java ... -Duser.timezone=US/Central

Here is the complete complete list of time zones.

clock

Keywords: java, vm, virtual machine, time zone, user.timezone

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