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- java.time.ZoneId
- - java.time.ZoneOffset

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<ZoneOffset>, TemporalAccessor, TemporalAdjuster
```
public final class ZoneOffset
extends ZoneId
implements TemporalAccessor, TemporalAdjuster, Comparable<ZoneOffset>, Serializable
```
A time-zone offset from Greenwich/UTC, such as +02:00.
A time-zone offset is the amount of time that a time-zone differs from Greenwich/UTC. This is usually a fixed number of hours and minutes.
Different parts of the world have different time-zone offsets. The rules for how offsets vary by place and time of year are captured in the ZoneId class.
For example, Paris is one hour ahead of Greenwich/UTC in winter and two hours ahead in summer. The ZoneId instance for Paris will reference two ZoneOffset instances - a +01:00 instance for winter, and a +02:00 instance for summer.
In 2008, time-zone offsets around the world extended from -12:00 to +14:00. To prevent any problems with that range being extended, yet still provide validation, the range of offsets is restricted to -18:00 to 18:00 inclusive.
This class is designed for use with the ISO calendar system. The fields of hours, minutes and seconds make assumptions that are valid for the standard ISO definitions of those fields. This class may be used with other calendar systems providing the definition of the time fields matches those of the ISO calendar system.
Instances of ZoneOffset must be compared using equals(java.lang.Object). Implementations may choose to cache certain common offsets, however applications must not rely on such caching.
This is a value-based class; use of identity-sensitive operations (including reference equality (==), identity hash code, or synchronization) on instances of ZoneOffset may have unpredictable results and should be avoided. The equals method should be used for comparisons.

Implementation Requirements:

This class is immutable and thread-safe.

Since:

1.8

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static ZoneOffset`	`MAX`	Constant for the maximum supported offset.
`static ZoneOffset`	`MIN`	Constant for the maximum supported offset.
`static ZoneOffset`	`UTC`	The time-zone offset for UTC, with an ID of 'Z'.

Fields inherited from class java.time.ZoneId
SHORT_IDS

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Temporal`	`adjustInto(Temporal temporal)`	Adjusts the specified temporal object to have the same offset as this object.
`int`	`compareTo(ZoneOffset other)`	Compares this offset to another offset in descending order.
`boolean`	`equals(Object obj)`	Checks if this offset is equal to another offset.
`static ZoneOffset`	`from(TemporalAccessor temporal)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` from a temporal object.
`int`	`get(TemporalField field)`	Gets the value of the specified field from this offset as an `int`.
`String`	`getId()`	Gets the normalized zone offset ID.
`long`	`getLong(TemporalField field)`	Gets the value of the specified field from this offset as a `long`.
`ZoneRules`	`getRules()`	Gets the associated time-zone rules.
`int`	`getTotalSeconds()`	Gets the total zone offset in seconds.
`int`	`hashCode()`	A hash code for this offset.
`boolean`	`isSupported(TemporalField field)`	Checks if the specified field is supported.
`static ZoneOffset`	`of(String offsetId)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` using the ID.
`static ZoneOffset`	`ofHours(int hours)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` using an offset in hours.
`static ZoneOffset`	`ofHoursMinutes(int hours, int minutes)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` using an offset in hours and minutes.
`static ZoneOffset`	`ofHoursMinutesSeconds(int hours, int minutes, int seconds)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` using an offset in hours, minutes and seconds.
`static ZoneOffset`	`ofTotalSeconds(int totalSeconds)`	Obtains an instance of `ZoneOffset` specifying the total offset in seconds
`<R> R`	`query(TemporalQuery<R> query)`	Queries this offset using the specified query.
`ValueRange`	`range(TemporalField field)`	Gets the range of valid values for the specified field.
`String`	`toString()`	Outputs this offset as a `String`, using the normalized ID.

Methods inherited from class java.time.ZoneId
getAvailableZoneIds, getDisplayName, normalized, of, ofOffset, systemDefault

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

- Field Detail
  - UTC
```
public static final ZoneOffset UTC
```
    The time-zone offset for UTC, with an ID of 'Z'.
  - MIN
```
public static final ZoneOffset MIN
```
    Constant for the maximum supported offset.
  - MAX
```
public static final ZoneOffset MAX
```
    Constant for the maximum supported offset.
- Method Detail
  - of
```
public static ZoneOffset of(String offsetId)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset using the ID.
    This method parses the string ID of a ZoneOffset to return an instance. The parsing accepts all the formats generated by getId(), plus some additional formats:
    - Z - for UTC
    - +h
    - +hh
    - +hh:mm
    - -hh:mm
    - +hhmm
    - -hhmm
    - +hh:mm:ss
    - -hh:mm:ss
    - +hhmmss
    - -hhmmss
    Note that ± means either the plus or minus symbol.
    The ID of the returned offset will be normalized to one of the formats described by getId().
    The maximum supported range is from +18:00 to -18:00 inclusive.
    Parameters:
    
    offsetId - the offset ID, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone-offset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the offset ID is invalid
  - ofHours
```
public static ZoneOffset ofHours(int hours)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset using an offset in hours.
    
    Parameters:
    
    hours - the time-zone offset in hours, from -18 to +18
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone-offset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the offset is not in the required range
  - ofHoursMinutes
```
public static ZoneOffset ofHoursMinutes(int hours,
                                        int minutes)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset using an offset in hours and minutes.
    The sign of the hours and minutes components must match. Thus, if the hours is negative, the minutes must be negative or zero. If the hours is zero, the minutes may be positive, negative or zero.
    
    Parameters:
    
    hours - the time-zone offset in hours, from -18 to +18
    
    minutes - the time-zone offset in minutes, from 0 to ±59, sign matches hours
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone-offset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the offset is not in the required range
  - ofHoursMinutesSeconds
```
public static ZoneOffset ofHoursMinutesSeconds(int hours,
                                               int minutes,
                                               int seconds)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset using an offset in hours, minutes and seconds.
    The sign of the hours, minutes and seconds components must match. Thus, if the hours is negative, the minutes and seconds must be negative or zero.
    
    Parameters:
    
    hours - the time-zone offset in hours, from -18 to +18
    
    minutes - the time-zone offset in minutes, from 0 to ±59, sign matches hours and seconds
    
    seconds - the time-zone offset in seconds, from 0 to ±59, sign matches hours and minutes
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone-offset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the offset is not in the required range
  - from
```
public static ZoneOffset from(TemporalAccessor temporal)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset from a temporal object.
    This obtains an offset based on the specified temporal. A TemporalAccessor represents an arbitrary set of date and time information, which this factory converts to an instance of ZoneOffset.
    A TemporalAccessor represents some form of date and time information. This factory converts the arbitrary temporal object to an instance of ZoneOffset.
    The conversion uses the TemporalQueries.offset() query, which relies on extracting the OFFSET_SECONDS field.
    This method matches the signature of the functional interface TemporalQuery allowing it to be used as a query via method reference, ZoneOffset::from.
    
    Parameters:
    
    temporal - the temporal object to convert, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone-offset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if unable to convert to an ZoneOffset
  - ofTotalSeconds
```
public static ZoneOffset ofTotalSeconds(int totalSeconds)
```
    Obtains an instance of ZoneOffset specifying the total offset in seconds
    The offset must be in the range -18:00 to +18:00, which corresponds to -64800 to +64800.
    
    Parameters:
    
    totalSeconds - the total time-zone offset in seconds, from -64800 to +64800
    
    Returns:
    
    the ZoneOffset, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the offset is not in the required range
  - getTotalSeconds
```
public int getTotalSeconds()
```
    Gets the total zone offset in seconds.
    This is the primary way to access the offset amount. It returns the total of the hours, minutes and seconds fields as a single offset that can be added to a time.
    
    Returns:
    
    the total zone offset amount in seconds
  - getId
```
public String getId()
```
    Gets the normalized zone offset ID.
    The ID is minor variation to the standard ISO-8601 formatted string for the offset. There are three formats:
    - Z - for UTC (ISO-8601)
    - +hh:mm or -hh:mm - if the seconds are zero (ISO-8601)
    - +hh:mm:ss or -hh:mm:ss - if the seconds are non-zero (not ISO-8601)
    Specified by:
    
    getId in class ZoneId
    
    Returns:
    
    the zone offset ID, not null
  - getRules
```
public ZoneRules getRules()
```
    Gets the associated time-zone rules.
    The rules will always return this offset when queried. The implementation class is immutable, thread-safe and serializable.
    
    Specified by:
    
    getRules in class ZoneId
    
    Returns:
    
    the rules, not null
  - isSupported
```
public boolean isSupported(TemporalField field)
```
    Checks if the specified field is supported.
    This checks if this offset can be queried for the specified field. If false, then calling the range and get methods will throw an exception.
    If the field is a ChronoField then the query is implemented here. The OFFSET_SECONDS field returns true. All other ChronoField instances will return false.
    If the field is not a ChronoField, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.isSupportedBy(TemporalAccessor) passing this as the argument. Whether the field is supported is determined by the field.
    
    Specified by:
    
    isSupported in interface TemporalAccessor
    
    Parameters:
    
    field - the field to check, null returns false
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the field is supported on this offset, false if not
  - range
```
public ValueRange range(TemporalField field)
```
    Gets the range of valid values for the specified field.
    The range object expresses the minimum and maximum valid values for a field. This offset is used to enhance the accuracy of the returned range. If it is not possible to return the range, because the field is not supported or for some other reason, an exception is thrown.
    If the field is a ChronoField then the query is implemented here. The supported fields will return appropriate range instances. All other ChronoField instances will throw an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException.
    If the field is not a ChronoField, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.rangeRefinedBy(TemporalAccessor) passing this as the argument. Whether the range can be obtained is determined by the field.
    
    Specified by:
    
    range in interface TemporalAccessor
    
    Parameters:
    
    field - the field to query the range for, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the range of valid values for the field, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if the range for the field cannot be obtained
    
    UnsupportedTemporalTypeException - if the field is not supported
  - get
```
public int get(TemporalField field)
```
    Gets the value of the specified field from this offset as an int.
    This queries this offset for the value of the specified field. The returned value will always be within the valid range of values for the field. If it is not possible to return the value, because the field is not supported or for some other reason, an exception is thrown.
    If the field is a ChronoField then the query is implemented here. The OFFSET_SECONDS field returns the value of the offset. All other ChronoField instances will throw an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException.
    If the field is not a ChronoField, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.getFrom(TemporalAccessor) passing this as the argument. Whether the value can be obtained, and what the value represents, is determined by the field.
    
    Specified by:
    
    get in interface TemporalAccessor
    
    Parameters:
    
    field - the field to get, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the value for the field
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if a value for the field cannot be obtained or the value is outside the range of valid values for the field
    
    UnsupportedTemporalTypeException - if the field is not supported or the range of values exceeds an int
    
    ArithmeticException - if numeric overflow occurs
  - getLong
```
public long getLong(TemporalField field)
```
    Gets the value of the specified field from this offset as a long.
    This queries this offset for the value of the specified field. If it is not possible to return the value, because the field is not supported or for some other reason, an exception is thrown.
    If the field is a ChronoField then the query is implemented here. The OFFSET_SECONDS field returns the value of the offset. All other ChronoField instances will throw an UnsupportedTemporalTypeException.
    If the field is not a ChronoField, then the result of this method is obtained by invoking TemporalField.getFrom(TemporalAccessor) passing this as the argument. Whether the value can be obtained, and what the value represents, is determined by the field.
    
    Specified by:
    
    getLong in interface TemporalAccessor
    
    Parameters:
    
    field - the field to get, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the value for the field
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if a value for the field cannot be obtained
    
    UnsupportedTemporalTypeException - if the field is not supported
    
    ArithmeticException - if numeric overflow occurs
  - query
```
public <R> R query(TemporalQuery<R> query)
```
    Queries this offset using the specified query.
    This queries this offset using the specified query strategy object. The TemporalQuery object defines the logic to be used to obtain the result. Read the documentation of the query to understand what the result of this method will be.
    The result of this method is obtained by invoking the TemporalQuery.queryFrom(TemporalAccessor) method on the specified query passing this as the argument.
    
    Specified by:
    
    query in interface TemporalAccessor
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    R - the type of the result
    
    Parameters:
    
    query - the query to invoke, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the query result, null may be returned (defined by the query)
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if unable to query (defined by the query)
    
    ArithmeticException - if numeric overflow occurs (defined by the query)
  - adjustInto
```
public Temporal adjustInto(Temporal temporal)
```
    Adjusts the specified temporal object to have the same offset as this object.
    This returns a temporal object of the same observable type as the input with the offset changed to be the same as this.
    The adjustment is equivalent to using Temporal.with(TemporalField, long) passing ChronoField.OFFSET_SECONDS as the field.
    In most cases, it is clearer to reverse the calling pattern by using Temporal.with(TemporalAdjuster):
```
   // these two lines are equivalent, but the second approach is recommended
   temporal = thisOffset.adjustInto(temporal);
   temporal = temporal.with(thisOffset);
 
```
    This instance is immutable and unaffected by this method call.
    Specified by:
    
    adjustInto in interface TemporalAdjuster
    
    Parameters:
    
    temporal - the target object to be adjusted, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the adjusted object, not null
    
    Throws:
    
    DateTimeException - if unable to make the adjustment
    
    ArithmeticException - if numeric overflow occurs
  - compareTo
```
public int compareTo(ZoneOffset other)
```
    Compares this offset to another offset in descending order.
    The offsets are compared in the order that they occur for the same time of day around the world. Thus, an offset of +10:00 comes before an offset of +09:00 and so on down to -18:00.
    The comparison is "consistent with equals", as defined by Comparable.
    
    Specified by:
    
    compareTo in interface Comparable<ZoneOffset>
    
    Parameters:
    
    other - the other date to compare to, not null
    
    Returns:
    
    the comparator value, negative if less, positive if greater
    
    Throws:
    
    NullPointerException - if other is null
  - equals
```
public boolean equals(Object obj)
```
    Checks if this offset is equal to another offset.
    The comparison is based on the amount of the offset in seconds. This is equivalent to a comparison by ID.
    
    Overrides:
    
    equals in class ZoneId
    
    Parameters:
    
    obj - the object to check, null returns false
    
    Returns:
    
    true if this is equal to the other offset
    
    See Also:
    
    Object.hashCode(), HashMap
  - hashCode
```
public int hashCode()
```
    A hash code for this offset.
    
    Overrides:
    
    hashCode in class ZoneId
    
    Returns:
    
    a suitable hash code
    
    See Also:
    
    Object.equals(java.lang.Object), System.identityHashCode(java.lang.Object)
  - toString
```
public String toString()
```
    Outputs this offset as a String, using the normalized ID.
    
    Overrides:
    
    toString in class ZoneId
    
    Returns:
    
    a string representation of this offset, not null

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Class ZoneOffset

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.time.ZoneId

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.time.ZoneId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Field Detail

UTC

MIN

MAX

Method Detail

of

ofHours

ofHoursMinutes

ofHoursMinutesSeconds

from

ofTotalSeconds

getTotalSeconds

getId

getRules

isSupported

range

get

getLong

query

adjustInto

compareTo

equals

hashCode

toString