<i18n dev> RFR: 8148446: (tz) Support tzdata2016a

[Masayoshi Okutsu]

Looks good to me.

Masayoshi

On 2/4/2016 5:55 PM, Ramanand Patil wrote:
> Hi Masayoshi/all,
> Please review the updated Webrev at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpatil/8148446/webrev.01/
>
> Regards,
> Ramanand.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masayoshi Okutsu
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 12:17 PM
> To: Ramanand Patil; i18n-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Cc: core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: RFR: 8148446: (tz) Support tzdata2016a
>
> Hi Ramanand,
>
> I noticed that the zones in Yakutsk Time [1] seem to have their own names, such as "Khandyga Time" for Asia/Khandyga, and you seem to follow that convention for Asia/Chita. That causes some mismatch between the long names and abbreviations.
>
> I dag out some past tzdata fixes to see how that happened. What I found out is that the 2013b fix [2] used "Yakutsk Time", but that the 2013c [3] fix used "Khandyga Time". 2013b went to JDK 7 updates and earlier ones and 2013c went to 8. JDK 9 inherits the 8 fix.
>
> I prefer to restore the 2013b convention for Asia/Yakutsk, Asia/Chita, and Asia/Khandyga to have:
>
>       {"Yakutsk Time", "YAKT",
>        "Yakutsk Summer Time", "YAKST",
>        "Yakutsk Time", "YAKT"}
>
> Thanks,
> Masayoshi
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk_Time
> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b8009df64dc8
> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/ae35fdbab949
>
> On 2/2/2016 8:00 PM, Ramanand Patil wrote:
>> HI all,
>>
>> Please review the latest TZDATA integration (tzdata2016a) to JDK9.
>>
>> Bug  - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148446
>>
>> Webrev - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpatil/8148446/webrev.00/
>>
>>    
>>
>> All the TimeZone related tests are passed after integration.
>>
>>    
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ramanand.