Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:30:16 +0200 From: Erwan Arzur <erwan@netvalue.fr> To: Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time and jdk 1.1.7 Message-ID: <374284A8.B4479EBD@netvalue.fr> References: <37424635.3B968743@greycat.com>
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> A quick search of the archive turned up one reference to the TimeZone > class being > broken, so... Is there a workaround or a fix available? I'd class this > as more > an annoyance than anything. The interesting thing is that the author > reports that > setting TZ to PDT works fine on a 2.2.8-R system. > This is a known problem with jdk 1.1 on all platforms : see http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4069784.html Here is the workaround for me, living in France. My system TZ is CEST under FreeBSD and "MET DST" under Solaris. i've aliased java to "java -Duser.timezone=ECT", and put that in all my scripts. This made all my date handling work much better ! :-) Take a look at the sources in java.util.* to get an appropriate value for your own time zone ... If you take a look at the duplicate bugs, you'll see that most developpers call that a "nightmare", and that the javasoft guys sounds much like Microsoft's : "it's a feature" :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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