Sorry for this belated response.
I prefer to follow the tzdata abbreviations, like "+04". But that would
require some major changes. An option would be not to define time zone
names for the new zones with the +hh format.
Thanks,
Masayoshi
On 3/17/2016 4:38 AM, Ramanand Patil wrote:
Hi all,
Please review the latest TZDATA (tzdata2016b) integration to JDK9.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151876
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpatil/8151876/webrev.00/
All the TimeZone related tests are passed after integration.
Please note that, as per the release notes: As a trial of a new system that needs less information
to be made up, the new zones use numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04" instead of
invented abbreviations like "ASTT".
Since this is a trial system, I have ignored this in the current patch which
adds 3 new timezones. But I think it's worth discussing this new system along
with this bug and get the experts opinion on this.
Do you think that JDK should also follow these IANA timezone naming system for zone
abbreviations in future ? Will it be convenient to use such numeric time zone
abbreviations ? (Also, it looks like the abbreviations similar to "+03/+04"
will be used for the zones linked to the rule set with changing letters like: EST/EDT for
US, MSK/MSD for RU, etc..).
Regards,
Ramanand.
