[PATCH] libjava time zone fixes and improvements
Gerald Pfeifer
gerald@pfeifer.com
Mon Feb 26 01:09:00 GMT 2007
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
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