Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7092679: (tz) Java getting wrong timezone/DST info on Solaris 11

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

Cheers,
Edvard

On 14 okt 2011, at 07.02, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:

> Request for 7u2 phase 2 approval for:
>
> 7092679: (tz) Java getting wrong timezone/DST info on Solaris 11
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7092679
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=2214947
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~okutsu/7u2/7092679/
>
> The JDK 8 fix was reviewed by:
> Sean Coffey, Naoto Sato, Yuka Kamiya, and Kelly O'Hair (makefile  
> changes)
>
> Justification:
> A few months ago Solaris 11 made some (incompatible) changes in the  
> time zone configuration area. As a result, the Java runtime doesn't  
> detect the default time zone correctly on Solaris 11 b168 and later,  
> and wrong local time may be produced by Java classes. This fix is to  
> deal with the new time zone configuration information of Solaris 11.
>
> Regression tests for this fix are (still) in the closed area.
>
> Please note that this fix addresses the 64-bit Solaris build problem  
> in JDK 8 (7098454).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Masayoshi
>