Hey David! On 20Oct2009, at 8:21 AM, David LeBer wrote:
The disconnect appears to be somewhere between the system timezone and Java.
Well, it appears to me that there are a couple of things going on here... Apparently Java is having some troubles however I had a chance to check this on a Leopard machine today and I see why we didn't see this problem before SnowLeopard.
When you select the Toronto timezone (and possibly other areas...), you get a different timezone file selections: On Leopard /etc/localtime is sym-linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/ Eastern On SnowLeopard /etc/localtime is sym-linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Toronto
So, a work around on SnowLeopard is to sym-link /etc/localtime to /usr/ share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern and avoid setting the timezone with System Preferences.
Some belt and suspenders: When I sym-linked /etc/localtime to /usr/ share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto on Leopard, I saw the same broken behaviour as we're seeing on SnowLeopard... For both Java 1.5 and Java 1.4.2.
Finally, the America/Toronto convention above is from the folks who maintain the timezone files, not mine! ;-)
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