David Holmes wrote: [...]
I fill in user.timezone during insertSystemProperties at the same time as all the other dynamic properties that have to be obtained from the OS: file encoding, user name, os name, current dir etc etc.
Jikes RVM sets those in "runrvm", a shell script that calls the actual C executable.
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The native code with classpath seems to have a bug in it though because it ignores tzname[1] when it is different to tzname[0] rather than when it is the same.
Yes, I see it too. I should get the rest of my night's sleep and then think about a test case to manifest the problem.
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My feeling is that user.timezone is not a property that is filled in for use
by application code, but rather for one part of the VM to communicate
indirectly with another part.
This makes sense, yes. Now I know why I want to set it; my test program that calls TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName() always prints "Greenwich Mean Time" if I don't.
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