How do I format a javax.time.Instant as a string in the local time zone?

Question

How do I format a javax.time.Instant as a string in the local time zone? The following translates a local Instant to UTC, not to the local time zone as I was expec

Answer 1

Before you down vote my answer, please note that the question explicitly (and in bold typeface) refers to old version 0.6.3 of the JSR-310 reference implementation! I asked this question in December 2012, long before the arrival of Java 8 and the new date library!

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I gave up on JSR-310 classes DateTimeFormatter and ZonedDateTime and instead resorted to old fashioned java.util.Date and java.text.SimpleDateFormat:

public String getDateTimeString( final Instant instant )
{
    checkNotNull( instant );
    DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyyMMddHHmmss" );
    Date date = new Date( instant.toEpochMillisLong() );
    return format.format( date );
}