<i18n dev> Additional source to guess the local timezone ID on linux

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 08/27/2013 03:00 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:
> > /etc/sysconfig/clock used to be supported, but it was removed in JDK 7.
> > The problem is discussed in bug #6456628.
> > 
> > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6456628
> 
> Thanks for that link. I did not know that this support was present in
> JDK7 but then removed. I did not expect various distributions and
> versions to have significant differences in that file either.
> 

To bring things full circle:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489586

"BTW: I'll change the warning boilerplate to this to make it more clear:

# The time zone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
# This file is only for evaluation by system-config-date, do not rely on its
# contents elsewhere."

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489586#c2

> > Have you tested your fix on all Red Hat-like distros, including some
> > older releases, with all the time zone IDs?
> 
> No, I tested this with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. I did not try it on
> older versions. I know newer versions of Fedora don't ship with this
> file any more.
> 
> Given that this support was removed because there were significant
> differences in that file making maintenance harder in OpenJDK, I am
> going to withdraw this patch.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who reviewed and commented on it.
> 
> Omair
> 
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