thanks guys... Sean's recommendation (of including latest tzdata) sound very much like Martin's -with-tzdata-dir. Any chance of seeing that option (--with-tzdata-dir) in OpenJDK8? My read from Martin's comment is that Icedtea configurator is different from openjdk configurator.
Thanks Medi ________________________________ From: Seán Coffey [sean.cof...@oracle.com] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 5:13 PM To: Martin Buchholz; Medi Montaseri Cc: build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: where is TimeZone bits JDK 8 does continue to ship with tzdata info built into it. The structure changed significantly with the introduction of JSR 310. The lib/zi directory has been replaced with one lib/tzdb.dat file which contains the tzdata rules in compiled format. You can always add the latest tzdata to the jdk/make/data/tzdata/ directory and rebuild for latest rules. regards, Sean. On 03/03/14 15:36, Martin Buchholz wrote: A difference between IcedTea and Oracle JDK. E.g. http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches use-system-tzdata Use timezone data from the system . $ ./configure --help --with-tzdata-dir[=DIR] set the Java timezone data directory [DIR=/usr/share/javazi] On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Medi Montaseri <medi.montas...@hds.com><mailto:medi.montas...@hds.com>wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is the correct forum.... I have installed openJDK8 on a Debian linux. I was comparing my new JRE with an older version (openjdk6) and I see that I don't have bunch of timezone files. Here is the old one ./jre/lib/zi/CST6CDT ./jre/lib/zi/SystemV/ ./jre/lib/zi/SystemV/PST8PDT ./jre/lib/zi/SystemV/AST4 etc, etc I read something about Sun no longer including tzupdator and timezone files....what is OpenJDK's position on this issue? If openjdk8 does not include TimeZone, how do I incorporate them into my JRE and JDK? Is there another upstream maintainer of TZs? thanks Medi
