Getting timezone offset with Joda Time
I got hopelessly stuck on this task.  I get other-than-UTC future date input from user > I need to persist it as UTC time. I tried various ways, but it always ends up like this: (method names are irrelevant)
![alt text][1]


Could please anybody give me the right direction ? 

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/SgkYe.png
Getting timezone offset with Joda Time
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I got hopelessly stuck on this task.  I get other-than-UTC future date input from user > I need to persist it as UTC time. I tried various ways, but it always ends up like this: (method names are irrelevant)
![alt text][1]


Could please anybody give me the right direction ? 

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/SgkYe.png