Re: Pacific/Easter TimeZone.java

[Bastiaan Huisman]

>>>>> "Tom" == "Tom Tromey" <address@hidden> 

Bastiaan> The Pacific/Easter TimeZone has been defined incorrectly in
Bastiaan> java.util.TimeZone. It should go into and out of DST at the
Bastiaan> same UTC as Chile (America/Santiago), not at the same
Bastiaan> wall-time as Chile.

Tom> This code was generated by scripts/timezone.pl.
Tom> Maybe it was run against an incorrect timezone data file?
Tom> Could you try running scripts/timezone.pl (there is a comment at the
Tom> top showing where to get the data) and seeing if that helps?

I have downloaded timezone.pl and tzabbrevs from the cvs at
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/classpath/classpath/scripts/
then I downloaded ftp://ftp.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/tzdata2005k.tar.gz and
unpacked it to the directory ./tzdata 
At first it says: 
"Unknown link Link America/Buenos_Aires AGT"
removing this line from tzabbrevs and the timezone.pl works fine. 

The output from timezone.pl differs strongly from TimeZone.java in 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.17.tar.gz for more than just
Pacific/Easter. 

I am therefore confident that TimeZone.java in the tarball was made with
a different (perhaps obsolete) tzdata. I will check tomorrow whether the
timezone.java I generated from tzdata2005k.tar.gz is correct for at
least some timezones I am personally familiar to.

Kind Regards,
Bastiaan Huisman