(I hit the wrong reply button, sorry - sending again to all included, including Debian's bug tracker)
Hi Stephen, The Debian release is 4.0 - Debian Etch. The timezone data version in this release, as far as I can tell, is 2007b (I suppose that is what you call an Olson dataset - I am not an expert in these things :-) ) Let me summarize the problem, as I understand it. Since I made the bug report I have examined the JDK5 and 6 sources and confirmed the problem more precisely. * JDK5 and JDK6 (the problem is present in both, I don't know about earlier versions) detect the system timezone by relying on "/etc/localtime" being a symbolic link. For example, if "/etc/localtime" points to "/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific", then the zone ID is "US/Pacific" * In Debian Etch (and I suppose other distributions) "/etc/localtime" is not a link. If you are interested in the motivation for this change, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346342 . * When /etc/localtime is not a link, the library falls back to binary comparison of all files under "/usr/local/share/zoneinfo" against "/etc/localtime". It will find the first file which has the same contents as /etc/localtime, although it may not necessarily be the currently selected timezone. In this case it finds "SystemV/PST8PDT" before "US/Pacific". * In Debian based distributions the correct way to determine the system timezone is by reading "/etc/timezone". It is a test that can easily be added implemented before falling back to binary comparison. I can provide a patch if necessary - the code is really simple. * Finally, the definitions of "SystemV/PST8PDT" in Debian and JDK5 (I haven't checked JDK6) are different. So, when using "SystemV/PST8PDT" as a default timezone, Java displays the localtime incorrectly. I don't know whose definition of "SystemV/PST8PDT" is correct, but that doesn't really matter because the system timezone is not set to "SystemV/PST8PDT". Hope this helps. Please, let me know if you have any questions. regards, Tzvetan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
