new java dst bug

[jboland at citistreetonline.com (Boland, John)]

this morning we were told that there were problems with the way the EST,
HST, and MST jre/lib/zi files handled the time change. these files were
patched in the latest sun java patch bundle.

as we're looking at this further here, if your timezone is set to EST,
that means you don't recognize dst.  this used to work for the folks in
Indiana, but I thought they were forced to change like the rest of us
and only Hawaii and parts of Arizona don't change.

at this point, i don't know why i'm doing any of things i'm doing. just
that management says do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
Of Danny
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:07 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: new java dst bug

Code:
-------
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
    }
}
-------

This file must be named Test.java
To compile, type "javac Test.java -source 1.3 -target 1.3"
   (this should allow it to be run on any version of java beginning as
low as 1.3) To run, type "java Test"

You should compile it with the version you plan on testing

I wasn't aware of a "new bug in java's dst patch"...how new are we
talking?

-Danny Robert

Quoting "Boland, John" <jboland at citistreetonline.com>:

> folks,
>
> i'm sure by now, everyone is aware of the NEW bug found in java's dst 
> patch.
>
> i need the dumbest, simplest, easiest java code to run on several 
> different versions of java on several different o/s'es to display the 
> current time.
>
> my plan is to load this on a server, change the time to 1:59 AM sun, 
> run the code, wait 2 minutes and run it again.  hopefully, the result 
> will be 3:01 AM sun.  i know this is a nasty, brute-force way of 
> testing this. but, i can't think of any other way.  there have been 
> several tools to test the time by checking the timezone files 
> directly.  at this point, i don't trust ANY of them.  i just want to 
> see the current time via java.
>
> if someone could post this, i'm sure there are a lot of others in the 
> same boat that i'm in.
>
> tia...
>
>
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