<i18n dev> 8027848: The ZoneInfoFile doesn't honor future GMT offset changes

[Xueming Shen]

Aleksej,

For better performance
(1) the currT should be "static final" so we dont have to access the
System.curentTimeMillis() for each TimeZone/ZoneInfo instance.
(2) instead of iterating through the standardTransitions(), shouldn't we just
check the last one? given it's a sorted list.

btw, in theory, the change now uses the "current vm starttime" instead of
the "tzdb generated" time. But it should be fine, given ZoneInfo.getRawOffset()
will just do a search for the current rawoffset. I may consider to add the
"generated time" into the tzdb.dat in the future, if desired.

Thanks!
-Sherman

On 11/05/2013 09:26 AM, Aleksej Efimov wrote:
> Hi,
> Can I have a review for a 8027848 [1] bug fix . There is unimplemented functionality related to the future GMT offset changes.
> The ZoneInfoFile class doesn't analyses if there is such offset changes and as a result incorrectly creates the ZoneInfo instance.
> It was discovered during the TestZoneInfo310 test execution as part of tzdata2013h update [3].
>
> Thanks,
> Aleksej
>
> [1] The bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027848
> [2] Proposed fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aefimov/8027848/webrev.00
> [3] tzdata2013h review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-November/022898.html