TimeZone defaults.

[Jonathan Chen]

Hi,

This topic came up before with no resolution; and it's still present
in the latest native JDK1.4.2 port: The default TimeZone is not being
set correctly:

    0:baldur-/tmp,3:52pm> date
    Wed Nov 12 15:53:01 NZDT 2003
    0:baldur-/tmp,3:53pm> java tztest
    Greenwich Mean Time
    0:baldur-/tmp,3:53pm> java -version
    java version "1.4.2-p5"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-p5-root_12_nov_2003_10_06)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-p5-root_12_nov_2003_10_06, mixed mode)

Here's the code for tztest.java:

    import java.util.TimeZone;
    public class tztest
    {
            public static void
            main (
             String args [])
            {
                    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault ();

                    System.out.println (tz.getDisplayName ());
            }
    }

TimeZone.getTimeZone(String id) *does* work, so there is a workaround,
but TimeZone.getDefault() isn't picking the Host-System's TimeZone
setting.

I'll raise a PR for it if no one here knows of a quick fix.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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