daylight savings time change

[Temlakos]

William Hooper wrote:

>Tim wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:12 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
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>>>To maintain platform independence Java does not acquire the date time
>>>from the OS, but does it's own calculations.
>>>      
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>>I presume you don't mean the JRE.  I've never seen any way that you
>>could tell it to use a particular timezone, so it must be able to tell what
>>your local one is by itself.
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>Unfortunately the JRE is also affected.  From the horses mouth:
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>http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/tzupdatertool.html
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>"The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) stores rules about DST observance all
>around the globe. Older JREs will have outdated rules that will be
>superseded by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. As a result, applications
>running on an older JRE may report incorrect time from March 11, 2007
>through April 2, 2007 and from October 29, 2007 through November 4, 2007."
>
>"You can download any of the following Java platform versions to resolve
>this DST issue:
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>    * JDK 6 Project (beta)
>    * J2SE 5.0 Update 6 or later
>    * J2SE 1.4.2_11 or later
>    * J2SE 1.3.1_18 or later"
>
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The current J2SE5 update is 10. I found that out when I went to grab a 
proper source file for Java, per the JPackage method.

Sadly, JPackage does not have a "nosrc.rpm" for J2SE6.

Temlakos