[14] RFR: 8212970: TZ database in "vanguard" format support

[naoto.sato at oracle.com]

Hi Joe,

Thank you for the review.

On 7/24/19 2:57 PM, Joe Wang wrote:
> Hi Naoto,
> 
> The method findNegativeSavings method in TzdbZoneRulesProvider.java 
> states that it "Find the minimum negative savings". While the result is 
> correct since the rules all have the same value for SAVE, I wonder if 
> that's ideal conceptually. Given a start LDT, shouldn't it be looking 
> for the SAVE in the exact (narrower) date range (e.g. 1981 - 1989 vs 
> 1981 - max)?.

I believe it is working as such. The end year is retrieved within the 
method (line 879) and only the minimum negative saving values within the 
window is filtered.

> 
> NegativeDSTTest verifies the tzdata, that is the adjusted data after 
> import, is that correct? I wonder a comment and a bit of details in the 
> test summary would be helpful since there is no negative data in the 
> test itself.

Good point. It is confusing. I supplied summary text in the test (also 
the similar line in TestZoneRules.java)

Here is the updated webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/8212970/webrev.11/

Naoto
> 
> Best,
> Joe
> 
> On 7/23/19 3:15 PM, naoto.sato at oracle.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review the fix to the following enhancement:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212970
>>
>> The proposed changeset is located at:
>>
>> https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/8212970/webrev.09/
>>
>> This change aims to support the "vanguard" IANA time zone data format, 
>> which uses the negative savings and transition time beyond a day 
>> period. The change basically translates those negative savings and 
>> transition times, such as 25:00, into the ones that the current JDK 
>> recognizes, then produces the data file "tzdb.dat" at the build time. 
>> At the run time, the data file is read and interpreted as before. This 
>> way the produced tzdb.dat is compatible with the prior JDK releases so 
>> that the TZ Updater can also distribute it as a time zone update.
>>
>> I have also refactored redundant copy of ZoneRules file in the build 
>> directory, by dynamically importing the file under src. Thus some 
>> build related files are modified. I am hoping folks on the build-dev 
>> can review those changes.
>>
>> Naoto
>