[7u60 request] Re: [7u-dev] Request for approval: 8038306: (tz) Support tzdata2014b

[Seán Coffey]

I'd like to request to pull this fix into 7u60 also. Best to ship 7u60 
with latest tzdata.

regards,
Sean.

On 06/04/2014 17:03, Aleksej Efimov wrote:
> Hi,
> This is a request to backport a fix for 8038306 to JDK7u-dev.
> Changes are almost identical to JDK9:
> Generic timezone names are not supported in JDK7 and because of that 
> changes related to "Antarctica/Troll" generic names wasn't backported.
> The following set of test were executed with "pass" result:
> test/sun/util/resources/TimeZone test/sun/util/calendar 
> test/closed/java/util/TimeZone test/java/util/TimeZone 
> test/java/util/Calendar test/java/util/Formatter 
> test/sun/util/resources/TimeZone
>
> JDK7 webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aefimov/8038306/7/webrev/
>
> JDK9 review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2014-April/001344.html
>
> JDK9 changesets:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/982e7ce47e3e
>
> JBS bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038306
>
> Thank you,
> -Aleksej