Hi, Please review this cleanup in TimeZone class, where an unused field is removed. Naoto -- diff -r 7fed08d588b5 src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/TimeZone.java --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/TimeZone.java +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/TimeZone.java @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Copyright (c) 1996, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. + * Copyright (c) 1996, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it @@ -784,9 +784,6 @@ static final String GMT_ID = "GMT"; private static final int GMT_ID_LENGTH = 3; - // a static TimeZone we can reference if no AppContext is in place - private static volatile TimeZone mainAppContextDefault; - /** * Parses a custom time zone identifier and returns a corresponding zone. * This method doesn't support the RFC 822 time zone format. (e.g., +hhmm)