[plug] Daylight Rubbish

[Mark O Shea]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:08:53 +0800, Timothy White wrote
> On 11/27/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
> >  (1)  What needs to be updated and where to I get it?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, just install the right zone files
> 
That's fine for the OS and all applications that get the timezone from it.  
Sun Java has it's own ideas and your needs to be updated (or use a beta 
version of an updater which is being prepared for when the US goes through 
all this next year after nearly 2 years warning).  Unfortunately there 
doesn't appear to be anything to update it to yet, there are bugs filed with 
Sun and they say they are working on it.  

Does anyone know of a freely available tool similar to zic which creates 
timezone files in the java format?

This was apparently a problem during the Commonwealth Games as well.

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Mark O'Shea