Get Daylight Saving Transition Dates For Time Zones in Java

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Joda Time (as ever) makes this really easy due to the DateTimeZone.nextTransition method. For example:

import org.joda.time.*;
import org.joda.time.format.*;

public class Test
{    
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        DateTimeZone zone = DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/London");        
        DateTimeFormatter format = DateTimeFormat.mediumDateTime();

        long current = System.currentTimeMillis();
        for (int i=0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            long next = zone.nextTransition(current);
            if (current == next)
            {
                break;
            }
            System.out.println (format.print(next) + " Into DST? " 
                                + !zone.isStandardOffset(next));
            current = next;
        }
    }
}

Output:

25-Oct-2009 01:00:00 Into DST? false
28-Mar-2010 02:00:00 Into DST? true
31-Oct-2010 01:00:00 Into DST? false
27-Mar-2011 02:00:00 Into DST? true
30-Oct-2011 01:00:00 Into DST? false
25-Mar-2012 02:00:00 Into DST? true
28-Oct-2012 01:00:00 Into DST? false
31-Mar-2013 02:00:00 Into DST? true
27-Oct-2013 01:00:00 Into DST? false
30-Mar-2014 02:00:00 Into DST? true
26-Oct-2014 01:00:00 Into DST? false
29-Mar-2015 02:00:00 Into DST? true
25-Oct-2015 01:00:00 Into DST? false
...

With Java 8, you can get the same information using ZoneRules with its nextTransition and previousTransition methods.

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