Get TimeZone offset value from TimeZone without TimeZone name

Question

I need to save the phone\'s timezone in the format [+/-]hh:mm

I am using TimeZone class to deal with this, but the only format I can get is the following:

Answer 1

I know this is old, but I figured I'd give my input. I had to do this for a project at work and this was my solution.

I have a Building object that includes the Timezone using the TimeZone class and wanted to create zoneId and offset fields in a new class.

So what I did was create:

private String timeZoneId;
private String timeZoneOffset;

Then in the constructor I passed in the Building object and set these fields like so:

this.timeZoneId = building.getTimeZone().getID();
this.timeZoneOffset = building.getTimeZone().toZoneId().getId();

So timeZoneId might equal something like "EST" And timeZoneOffset might equal something like "-05:00"

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