RFR: 8345213: JVM Prefers /etc/timezone Over /etc/localtime on Debian 12

Tue Feb 25 20:20:55 UTC 2025

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:15:43 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This seems to imply that as of 2016, /etc/timezone is a redundant file. Our supported Debian distros (as of JDK23) are Ubuntu 24.04LTS and 24.10, so I think we are OK just remove the support for /etc/timezone

Okay, although I expect there is a much wider set of distros in use. Getting this in early for JDK 25 is good as it gives time for anything that might depend on this to show up.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23755#issuecomment-2683191847