I need to replicate a simple procedure from Java code to SQL Server stored procedure. It will go into a SQL Azure db in production, but I'm testing it against my local SQL Express 12 install.
A part of this stored procedure is to concatenate some values into a string.
This is my example Java code:
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import com.google.common.base.Strings;
public static String concat() {
//init variables with sample data
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
Timestamp date = new Timestamp(dateFormat.parse("04/04/2014 21:07:13.897").getTime());
//format variables into 0-filled strings
String formattedDate = String.format("%011d", date.getTime() / 1000);
//concat those strings
String finalString = ... + formattedDate + ...;
return finalString;
}
Variables:
| date | formatted_date |
| ----------------------- | -------------- |
| 2014-04-04 21:07:13.897 | 01396638433 |
This is the equivalent in SQL:
DECLARE @date DATETIME;
DECLARE @formatted_date CHAR(11);
DECLARE @final_string CHAR(22);
--init variables with same data as Java code
SET @date = '2014/04/04 21:07:13.897';
--format variables into 0-filled strings
SET @formatted_date = FORMAT(DATEDIFF(s,'1970-01-01 00:00:00', @date), '00000000000');
--concat those strings
SET @final_string = CONCAT(..., @formatted_date, ...);
Variables:
| date | formatted_date |
| ----------------------- | -------------- |
| 2014-04-04 21:07:13.897 | 01396645633 |
While checking if the output was the same I noticed the dates are not the same:
Java output: 01396638433
MSSQL output: 01396645633
I opened this site to see what this difference meant:
Java: GMT: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:07:13 GMT, Your time zone: 4/4/2014 21:07:13 GMT+2
MSSQL: GMT: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:07:13 GMT, Your time zone: 4/4/2014 23:07:13 GMT+2
Exactly two hours difference.
I've found a query to run against SQL Server to check time zone settings:
DECLARE @TZ SMALLINT
SELECT @TZ=DATEPART(TZ, SYSDATETIMEOFFSET())
DECLARE @TimeZone VARCHAR(50)
EXEC MASTER.dbo.xp_regread 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation',
'TimeZoneKeyName',@TimeZone OUT
SELECT @TimeZone, CAST(@TZ/60 AS VARCHAR(5))+':'+Cast(ABS(@TZ)%60 AS VARCHAR(5));
Output:
| Time zone | Offset |
| ----------------------- | ------- |
| W. Europe Standard Time | 2:0 |
I checked JVM time zone like this:
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
System.out.println(now.getTimeZone());
System.out.println(System.getProperties().get("user.timezone").toString());
Output:
sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Europe/Berlin",offset=3600000, dstSavings=3600000,
transitions=143, lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=Europe/Berlin, offset=3600000,
dstSavings=3600000, startYear=0, startMode=2, startMonth=2, startDay=-1,
startDayOfWeek=1, startTime=3600000, startTimeMode=2, endMode=2, endMonth=9,
endDay=-1, endDayOfWeek=1, endTime=3600000, endTimeMode=2]]
Europe/Berlin
How can I get equal timestamps between Java and SQL Server?
解决方案
Even though Mark Rotteveel and dean gave enlightening answers I ended up doing the following:
at the beginning of my application init method I set
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
and all SQL calls to
getdate()
have been replaced with
getutcdate()
Thank you for your time!