<i18n dev> Turkish Time Zone name string and translation

naoto.sato at oracle.com naoto.sato at oracle.com
Sat Nov 16 00:27:05 UTC 2019


Hi Letu,

Please file a JBS issue for this (component: core-libs, subcomponent: 
java.util:i18n).

Naoto

On 11/15/19 3:19 PM, Yang, Letu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We recently found an issue with the Time Zone name for “Europe/Istanbul” and "Asian/Istanbul". Since Turkey moved to their own Turkish Time (TRT) zone in 2016, although the tzdata had been updated, the Time Zone name string has not been updated yet:
> 
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/8e7f29b1ad4a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/util/resources/TimeZoneNames.java#l836
> 
> It still returns "Eastern European Time" for the TimeZone.getDisplayName call, which has a summer time while Turkish Time does not. An entry for TRT need to be added to this file, and assign to both "Europe/Istanbul" and "Asian/Istanbul". This also need to be updated for other locales. I can create a JBS issue for this, but I am not sure whether we should fix this bug, or there is an existing procedure for this kind of bug which requires language translation.
> 
> Letu
> 
> 
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