----- Original Message ----- > On 08/27/2013 03:00 AM, Masayoshi Okutsu wrote: > > /etc/sysconfig/clock used to be supported, but it was removed in JDK 7. > > The problem is discussed in bug #6456628. > > > > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6456628 > > Thanks for that link. I did not know that this support was present in > JDK7 but then removed. I did not expect various distributions and > versions to have significant differences in that file either. >
To bring things full circle: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489586 "BTW: I'll change the warning boilerplate to this to make it more clear: # The time zone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime. # This file is only for evaluation by system-config-date, do not rely on its # contents elsewhere." https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489586#c2 > > Have you tested your fix on all Red Hat-like distros, including some > > older releases, with all the time zone IDs? > > No, I tested this with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. I did not try it on > older versions. I know newer versions of Fedora don't ship with this > file any more. > > Given that this support was removed because there were significant > differences in that file making maintenance harder in OpenJDK, I am > going to withdraw this patch. > > Thanks to everyone who reviewed and commented on it. > > Omair > > -- > PGP Key: 66484681 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) > Fingerprint = F072 555B 0A17 3957 4E95 0056 F286 F14F 6648 4681 > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
