Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:06:24 -0500 From: Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com> To: Timothy Kettering <timster@blackcore.com>, FreeBSD-Java <java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting the JVM timezone Message-ID: <E16l4iK-0006LF-00@snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <B8B3F8F7.582D%timster@blackcore.com> References: <B8B3F8F7.582D%timster@blackcore.com>
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:27pm, Timothy Kettering wrote: > Yes, I could put this in, but I'm also the kind of person who dislikes > putting in a fix on top of a problem that (in my perspective) shouldn't be > a problem to start with. Better to resolve the problem itself, I think. > We've had this same problem! I have checked jguru and other sources and it seems that other people, not necessarily just with the FreeBSD VM, have had this same problem. We made a property file for our apps and servlets to set the timezone manually. We did not see any other reliable mechanism for doing so. For as "improved" as the date/time handling is supposed to be in 1.2.2... I think it's ridiculous that everyone is still struggling with these issues in 1.3. Frankly I don't know why the problem hasn't gotten more attention. Time and date must not, surprisingly, be a major factor in the rest of the world's Java applications . . . IMO, the VM should *NEVER* set an arbitrary default timezone if it can't figure out what the real timezone is. It should throw an exception and halt. -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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