2009/12/3 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org>:
> 2009/12/2 Bill Tims (RSI) <bt...@rsitex.com>:
>> Andrew
>>
>> I've signed up and hopefully this will show up on the list.
>> The program is attached. I ran it, with test2(), with strace and grep'd
>> for javazi and got:
>>
>> 6205 stat64("/usr/share/javazi/ZoneInfoMappings", 0xb7328d4c) = -1 ENOENT
>> (No such file or directory)
>> ...
>> 6205 access("/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/zi/SystemV/CST6CDT", R_OK)
>> = 0
>> 6205 stat64("/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/zi/SystemV/CST6CDT",
>> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2288, ...}) = 0
>> 6205 open("/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/zi/SystemV/CST6CDT",
>> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
>> ......
>> 6205 read(5, "javazi\0\1\4\10\240\377\337\332\340\35\300\0!\377\340;"...,
>> 2288) = 2288
>>
>
> Interesting... so you do have the IcedTea patched version, but Ubuntu
> doesn't appear to install any timezone data in /usr/share/javazi.
>
It appears you should have this directory from a package 'tzdata-java'
(thanks to Xerxes Rånby for the information).
>> If I read this right it is using the CST6CDT file to get the incorrect
>> results. I'd rather not update the entire jre if I don't have to.
>> Everything else is working file...so far.
>>
>
> So OpenJDK6 is the one that's wrong? It may be that America/Chicago
> should be being used, as Masayoshi says, or could just be outdated
> timezone data in OpenJDK6.
>
>> Bill Tims
>> Renaissance Systems, Inc.
>> 5426 Guadalupe, Suite 100
>> Austin, TX 78751
>> 512-275-0344
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnu.andrew.ro...@gmail.com [mailto:gnu.andrew.ro...@gmail.com] On
>> Behalf Of Andrew John Hughes
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:10 PM
>> To: Bill Tims (RSI)
>> Cc: Masayoshi Okutsu; i18n-dev@openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: <i18n dev> Open Jdk Timezone bug?
>>
>> 2009/12/2 Bill Tims (RSI) <bt...@rsitex.com>:
>>> Andrew/Masayoshi
>>>
>>> After some research it appears that we have the openjdk-6-jre-lib
>>> package, version b11, installed and it is current according to Ubuntu.
>>
>> Ok, newer versions will also include the IcedTea version in java -version,
>>
>> $ /home/andrew/build/icedtea6/bin/java -version java version "1.6.0_0"
>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7pre-r1b34da20e2d1) (build
>> 1.6.0_0-b17) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b10, mixed mode)
>>
>> but I think those that use OpenJDK6 b11 are too old to do so.
>>
>>> The latest openjdk-6-jre has the same version number. Masayoshi indicates
>>> in an earlier email that the current version is 6u17.
>>
>> The latest is b17, the number Masayoshi quotes sounds like a version of the
>> proprietary JDK6 (as you are using on Windows, 6u7 in that
>> case) rather than an OpenJDK6 version.
>> It would be nice if such responses were posted to the public list...
>>
>>>
>>> When I run the app I wrote (I've added a dump of the version info from
>>> system properties) that displays the offset for America/Chicago for 1900 I
>>> get:
>>> version=1.6.0_0
>>> vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> java.vm.specification.version=1.0
>>> java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> java.vm.version=1.6.0_0-b11
>>> java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> timezone.id=America/Chicago
>>> date=Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CDT 1900
>>> 1900/0:-18000000
>>> 1900/1:-18000000
>>> 1900/2:-18000000
>>> 1900/3:-18000000
>>> 1900/4:-18000000
>>> 1900/5:-18000000
>>> 1900/6:-18000000
>>> 1900/7:-18000000
>>> 1900/8:-18000000
>>> 1900/9:-18000000
>>> 1900/10:-21600000
>>> 1900/11:-21600000
>>>
>>> The display is year/month#:offset.
>>> The same program running under the Sun jdk on windows gives me:
>>> version=1.6.0_07
>>> vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> java.vm.specification.version=1.0
>>> java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> java.vm.version=10.0-b23
>>> java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>> timezone.id=America/Chicago
>>> date=Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 1900
>>> 1900/0:-21600000
>>> 1900/1:-21600000
>>> 1900/2:-21600000
>>> 1900/3:-21600000
>>> 1900/4:-21600000
>>> 1900/5:-21600000
>>> 1900/6:-21600000
>>> 1900/7:-21600000
>>> 1900/8:-21600000
>>> 1900/9:-21600000
>>> 1900/10:-21600000
>>> 1900/11:-21600000
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a simple test case (probably creating a Date object and printing
>> it would be enough)?
>> If you want to know what timezone data is actually being used, you can run
>> something like strace -o out -f java TestApp and the resulting file, out,
>> will show the C calls being made to open the timezone data files.
>> My guess is that the Ubuntu version uses /usr/share/javazi rather than the
>> OpenJDK timezone data (which, for OpenJDK6, is very outdated - fixing that
>> is on my TODO list).
>> This is due to the patch icedtea-use-system-tzdata.patch in IcedTea which
>> contains:
>>
>> + SystemProperty* sp = Arguments::system_properties(); // Use the
>> + system zoneinfo files, if present Arguments::PropertyList_add (&sp,
>> + new
>> SystemProperty("user.zoneinfo.dir", "/usr/share/javazi",true));
>> +
>>
>> A newer version was submitted upstream but has not yet been approved:
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2009-August/000136.html
>>
>> (it's debatable whether such a fix is needed over just a simple symlink).
>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Bill Tims
>>> Renaissance Systems, Inc.
>>> 5426 Guadalupe, Suite 100
>>> Austin, TX 78751
>>> 512-275-0344
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gnu.andrew.ro...@gmail.com [mailto:gnu.andrew.ro...@gmail.com]
>>> On Behalf Of Andrew John Hughes
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:54 AM
>>> To: Masayoshi Okutsu
>>> Cc: Bill Tims (RSI); i18n-dev@openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: <i18n dev> Open Jdk Timezone bug?
>>>
>>> 2009/12/1 Masayoshi Okutsu <masayoshi.oku...@sun.com>:
>>>> What is the time zone ID you are using?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Masayoshi
>>>>
>>>> On 12/1/2009 1:55 AM, Bill Tims (RSI) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From what I can find, this appears to be the right place to post
>>>>> this, if I'm wrong I would appreciate a pointer to the proper location.
>>>>> The database our app has to talk to has January 1,1900 12:00:00 am
>>>>> date in it. When I load the value into a open jdk date object
>>>>> (using Ubuntu/JBoss 4.2.3 GA-jdk6) I get December 31, 1899 23:00:00.
>>>>> When I do the same thing on my dev box (Win XP/Sun jre 1.6.0_07) I
>>>>> get January 1, 1900 12:00:00 am. I wrote a test program that prints
>>>>> out the Timezone info for 1898-1902 and it appears that the open jdk
>>>>> has a daylight savings time starting on Jan 1, 1900 through Oct 1,
>>>>> 1900 and the sun version doesn't. According to Wikipedia, Daylight
>>>>> savings wasn't suggested until 1907.
>>>>> I can't find anything on the web that suggests where the timezone
>>>>> info is kept or how complicated it will be to rebuild whatever jar
>>>>> file is required. Can someone point me to the proper source file and
>>>>> suggest how involved building the fix will be?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> !
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Tims
>>>>>
>>>>> Renaissance Systems, Inc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't give any details of the OpenJDK version - what does 'java
>>> -version' give on your Ubuntu box?
>>> If this is the system OpenJDK build, then it's an IcedTea build and thus
>>> includes a patch to use the system timezone data which is likely to be more
>>> up-to-date than that bundled with Sun's JDK.
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