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From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
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Subject: Re: Timezone behavior of Java
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> If it works with your system then it must be something with ours. I have
> absolutely no idea what the cause might be. Any pointers?

There was a bug some years ago that caused a similar symptom, but only
when /etc/localtime was a symlink instead of a regular file.

Roger Marquis