<i18n dev> Open Jdk Timezone bug?

[Masayoshi Okutsu]

What is the time zone ID you are using?

Thanks,
Masayoshi

On 12/1/2009 1:55 AM, Bill Tims (RSI) wrote:
> From what I can find, this appears to be the right place to post this, 
> if I'm wrong I would appreciate a pointer to the proper location.
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> The database our app has to talk to has January 1,1900 12:00:00 am 
> date in it.  When I load the value into a open
> jdk date object (using Ubuntu/JBoss 4.2.3 GA-jdk6) I get December 31, 
> 1899 23:00:00.  When I do the same thing on my
> dev box (Win XP/Sun jre 1.6.0_07) I get January 1, 1900 12:00:00 am.  
> I wrote a test program that prints out the
> Timezone info for 1898-1902 and it appears that the open jdk has a 
> daylight savings time starting on Jan 1, 1900 through
> Oct 1, 1900 and the sun version doesn't.  According to Wikipedia, 
> Daylight savings wasn't suggested until 1907.
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> I can't find anything on the web that suggests where the timezone info 
> is kept or how complicated it will be to rebuild whatever jar
> file is required. Can someone point me to the proper source file and 
> suggest how involved building the fix will be?
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> Thanks
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> Bill
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> !
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> Bill Tims
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> Renaissance Systems, Inc.
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