RFR(xs): 8172221: Directorate of Time has been superseded

[Lance Andersen]

Hi Stuart,

Looks fine and validated the URLs are working :-)

Best
Lance
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 5:53 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this small patch to Date.java to remove the reference to the USNO's Directorate of Time, and to make minor adjustments to the text and the links.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> s'marks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # HG changeset patch
> # User smarks
> # Date 1484261274 28800
> #      Thu Jan 12 14:47:54 2017 -0800
> # Node ID 8443f4c21532c01621066a7a78ccea702e213c9b
> # Parent  81b1a6a91b9116faa8144b79d7d1e484e83f3540
> 8172221: Directorate of Time has been superseded
> Reviewed-by: XXX
> 
> diff -r 81b1a6a91b91 -r 8443f4c21532 src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java	Wed Jan 04 00:08:40 2017 +0000
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java	Thu Jan 12 14:47:54 2017 -0800
> @@ -82,17 +82,19 @@
>  * well; for example, the time scale used by the satellite-based
>  * global positioning system (GPS) is synchronized to UTC but is
>  * <i>not</i> adjusted for leap seconds. An interesting source of
> - * further information is the U.S. Naval Observatory, particularly
> - * the Directorate of Time at:
> + * further information is the United States Naval Observatory (USNO):
>  * <blockquote><pre>
> - *     <a href="http://www.usno.navy.mil">http://www.usno.navy.mil</a>
> + *     <a href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO">http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO</a>
>  * </pre></blockquote>
>  * <p>
> - * and their definitions of "Systems of Time" at:
> + * and the material regarding "Systems of Time" at:
>  * <blockquote><pre>
>  *     <a href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/systems-of-time">http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/systems-of-time</a>
>  * </pre></blockquote>
>  * <p>
> + * which has descriptions of various different time systems including
> + * UT, UT1, and UTC.
> + * <p>
>  * In all methods of class {@code Date} that accept or return
>  * year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds values, the
>  * following representations are used:

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