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Re: [PATCH] libjava time zone fixes and improvements
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:09:25 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] libjava time zone fixes and improvements
- References: <20070220224800.GH10425@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> The following patch adds a new class, gnu.java.util.ZoneInfo which
> unlike java.util.SimpleTimeZone can handle historical (and future)
> DST transitions and different offsets and changes to java.util.TimeZone
> to read /usr/share/zoneinfo files to create the TimeZone objects
> preferrably over the builtin simple timezones.
Yeah! Given the pain our friends from Australia and Brasil and other
parts of the world like to instill by changing timezones on short noticed
this is great stuff.
Would you mind adding some notes to gcc-4.3/changes.html? Also I wonder
whether we shouldn't add this as a news item on our main page?
Gerald