Using Joda-Time to get UTC offset for a given date and timezone

Question

I have dates in the format 20Jan2013, 08Aug2012 etc, with their own specific timezones. So for example, 20Jan2013 might have a timezone ID of Australia/Melbourne, and 08Aug2

Answer 1

When you know offset and timestamp so in order to get current time you can use

 public static String formatMonthDayMinuteByGivenUtcOffset(long timestamp, int offset) {
        return JODA_FORMATTER.print(createDateTime(timestamp, offset));
    }