<i18n dev> RFR: 8151876: (tz) Support tzdata2016d

[Seán Coffey]

Looks fine to me Ramanand. the recent 2016d changes have introduced some 
boundary issues for JDK rule parsing and those issues can be followed up 
in separate issues like you say.

Regards,
Sean.

On 26/05/16 14:22, Ramanand Patil wrote:
> HI all,
>
> Please review the latest TZDATA integration (tzdata2016d) to JDK9.
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151876
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> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpatil/8151876/webrev.00/
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> Patch Contains:
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> 1.       IANA tzdata2016d integration into JDK. [It also includes tzdata2016b and tzdata2016c which was not integrated].
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> 2.       "GMT[+ -]hh:mm" is used for formatting of the modified or newly added TimeZones in tzdata2016d.
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> [This is done to accommodate the IANA's new system where the zones use numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04" instead of invented abbreviations like "ASTT".]
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> 3.       Test case: java/time/test/java/time/format/TestZoneTextPrinterParser.java is updated to include the failures because of GMT[+ -]hh:mm format names.
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> 4.       Few other failing tests: For few other failing tests, new linked bugs are created and will be addressed in a separate patch.
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>   
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> Regards,
>
> Ramanand.
>
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