Timezones are basically used only when "rendering" a timestamp from "unix time" into a "civil time" date/time string. Let's take an example. PST is GMT-8, and EST is GMT-5. So when it is 3 AM in PST, it is 6 AM in EST. At that exact moment in time, the _timestamp_ ...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM : When the default time zone is set to various versions of a GMT offset of 1 allowed by the little grammar in the Javadoc, SimpleDateFormatter formats dates into some format that denotes a GMT+1 time zone (in some way), and if the resulting string is ...