Using system tzdata

[Andrew Haley]

Keith Seitz writes:

 > The JRE contains pre-compiled timezone information files. As an OS
 > vendor, Red Hat would prefer not to respin or repackage the JRE
 > every time tzdata changes somewhere in the world.
 > 
 > In order to facilitate this, we're in the process of modifying our
 > tzdata package to include pre-compiled zoneinfo files for use with
 > JREs.  I have created a patch to the openjdk JRE that would
 > optionally use these files instead of the pre-packaged ones in the
 > JRE.
 > 
 > We would really like to solicit advice/comments about how to get
 > something like this accepted upstream so that other distros can use
 > this.

I'd appreciate it if someone could tell us which of the many lists
@java.net would be the best place for this discussion.

TVM,
Andrew.

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