I don't know anything about how the Olson database is implemented
or accessed on any particular OS. I'm just brainstorming here.
Say someone creates their own timezone definition MYTZ and adds it
to the OS database. If Java fails to lookup any such timezone,
it seems reasonable to consult the
Tzdata for Java does have the Olson version information (eg,
tzdata2007k), but I don't think the OS tzdata has it. But I don't know
what Java should do if it was possible to check OS tzdata version. Can
you elaborate your suggestion a bit more?
Thanks,
Masayoshi
On 1/30/2008 8:51 AM, Martin B
Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:
> From the POV of operating system distributors that already need to
> support tzdata for other applications, and therefore need to keep it
> current anyway for their customers, I think it's preferable to rely on
> system facilities where such facili
Masayoshi Okutsu wrote:
Thank you for asking! :-) Here's the whole history on the time zone data
maintenance.
Thank you very much!
Tzupdate (for 1.4+) worked. But we encountered a platform specific
problem with Solaris Zones. A workaround was added to the tool. But I
considered it as a tempo
