Timezone behavior of Java

[Osipov, Michael]

Roger Marquis wrote:
>> If it works with your system then it must be something with ours. I
>> have absolutely no idea what the cause might be. Any pointers?
> 
> There was a bug some years ago that caused a similar symptom, but only
> when /etc/localtime was a symlink instead of a regular file.

Thanks for the information. My problem has got resolved due to Mike's tip.