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

[Rob McKenna]

Approved.

     -Rob

On 22/04/14 14:27, Seán Coffey wrote:
> 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
>