TimeZone Defaults]

[Ian G]

Jiawei Ye wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2005 11:41 AM, Christy Pang <christy at borderware.com> wrote:
> 
>>YES!!! But why copy over America/Toronto does not work?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Chriwty
>>
> 
> JDK/JRE do not behave well when required files are symlinks. I was
> bitten badly by font.properties and now it's TZ files. Is this a known
> problem or desired behaviour for JDK/JRE underlying files to be real
> path?


For me, it isn't a symlink issue.

The /etc/localtime file is set to something approximately
regional and date(1) recognises that as seen by its picking
up summer time.

iang


localhost$ cd /etc
localhost$ ls -la localtime
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1323 Dec 15 02:52 localtime
localhost$ ls -latr localtime
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1323 Dec 15 02:52 localtime
localhost$ date
Tue Apr 12 12:48:52 BST 2005
localhost$ ls -latr localtime
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1323 Dec 15 02:52 localtime
localhost$ md5 localtime
MD5 (localtime) = 4c9f9c5c5f86bcc5465c08831ef59e75
localhost$ md5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/*/* | grep 4c9f9c5c5f86bcc5465c08831ef59e75
MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London) = 4c9f9c5c5f86bcc5465c08831ef59e75
localhost$

...

$ java -cp . tztest
Greenwich Mean Time



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