[RFR] [8u] 8228469: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2019b

Andrew John Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Wed Sep 25 14:46:54 UTC 2019



On 25/09/2019 15:37, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk8/8228469/webrev.01/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8228469
> 
> This is the regular timezone data update for the next CPU.
> 
> The only real difference from the patch for 11 & 14 is that I chose to
> keep with rearguard format for now. We can look at backporting
> JDK-8212970 for 8u242, but I don't want to make such a change at this
> late stage in 8u232.
> 
> The effect of this is in make/data/tzdata/africa where the additions for
> Morocco don't use a negative offset and the context of the changes being
> applied differs slightly (some lines have to be commented out in
> rearguard, such as Ireland's negative offset)
> 
> The rearguard version was created by downloading the tzdata2019b bundle
> and running 'make rearguard_tarballs' as specified in the bug text. This
> generated version was then compared against that from jdk11, with the
> only difference being those Morocco rules.
> 
> The only other trivial change from jdk11 is in
> test/java/util/TimeZone/TimeZoneTest.java where the bug ID list is
> different. I also took the opportunity to drop the useless @modules line
> from there.
> 
> Once reviewed, I'll propose this for jdk8u-critical-request.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I've included the rearguard data tarball I used here:

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk8/8228469/tzdata2019b-rearguard.tar.gz
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