Java displays an hour off (+1) from the system date when
TZ environment variable is set to any time zone.

Java displays time correctly as the system time when
there is no TZ variable set in the environment.

On solaris sparc 64bit platform
Java works fine regardless of TZ being set.


Example:

export TZ="EST+5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2"

and running :

import java.util.Date;

class ExampleDate {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date today = new Date();
    System.out.println(today);
  }
}

gives different result to system date(date)