Hi all,
Please review this small patch to Date.java to remove the reference to the
USNO's Directorate of Time, and to make minor adjustments to the text and the links.
Thanks.
s'marks
# HG changeset patch
# User smarks
# Date 1484261274 28800
# Thu Jan 12 14:47:54 2017 -0800
# Node ID 8443f4c21532c01621066a7a78ccea702e213c9b
# Parent 81b1a6a91b9116faa8144b79d7d1e484e83f3540
8172221: Directorate of Time has been superseded
Reviewed-by: XXX
diff -r 81b1a6a91b91 -r 8443f4c21532
src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java Wed Jan 04 00:08:40
2017 +0000
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/Date.java Thu Jan 12 14:47:54
2017 -0800
@@ -82,17 +82,19 @@
* well; for example, the time scale used by the satellite-based
* global positioning system (GPS) is synchronized to UTC but is
* <i>not</i> adjusted for leap seconds. An interesting source of
- * further information is the U.S. Naval Observatory, particularly
- * the Directorate of Time at:
+ * further information is the United States Naval Observatory (USNO):
* <blockquote><pre>
- * <a href="http://www.usno.navy.mil";>http://www.usno.navy.mil</a>
+ * <a
href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO";>http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO</a>
* </pre></blockquote>
* <p>
- * and their definitions of "Systems of Time" at:
+ * and the material regarding "Systems of Time" at:
* <blockquote><pre>
* <a
href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/systems-of-time";>http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/systems-of-time</a>
* </pre></blockquote>
* <p>
+ * which has descriptions of various different time systems including
+ * UT, UT1, and UTC.
+ * <p>
* In all methods of class {@code Date} that accept or return
* year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds values, the
* following representations are used:
