I'm not familiar with the internals of the JVM, but why does a JVM even
need its own database? Why can't it use the native OS's timezone
database, just like it abstracts many other OS services.

Although I'm a Java programmer, I firmly believe that managing the time
zone information is the system administrator job, since it interacts
with many other services and processes on the system (cron, backups,
etc).

Would patching the JVM to make it use Ubuntu's native time-zone database
be a daunting task, in your opinion? (I'm asking because I'm not at all
familiar with the actual JVM source code)

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Java reports time zone incorrectly during CDT (US Daylight saving time)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49068
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