How do I programmatically set the time zone in Java?

Question

I know I can feed VM arguments as follows

-Duser.timezone="Australia/Sydney"

Is there a programmatic way to do the equivalent? I would like the setting to be applied across the entire virtual machine.

I found myself in the same problem a while ago, I couldn't make it change in runtime. — Timoteo Ponce, Oct 03 '11 at 03:18
Interesting thread here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176784/timezone-setdefault-changes-in-jdk6 — KV Prajapati, Oct 03 '11 at 03:29

MetroidFan2002 · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18T01:31:45.487

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java.util.TimeZone.setDefault() can be used to set a default time zone to be returned by getDefault().

edited Mar 18 '16 at 01:31

answered Oct 03 '11 at 03:20

MetroidFan2002

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