Hi Cath, In the ICU api doc, SimpleDateFormat, it says "For time zones that have no names, use strings GMT+hours:minutes or GMT-hours:minutes. ". You can find details here <http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/>.
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Catherine Hope (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>wrote: > [classlib][luni] Default GMT TimeZone has no display name defined > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-6269 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6269 > Project: Harmony > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: all > Reporter: Catherine Hope > Priority: Minor > > > The default TimeZone, GMT, has no display names defined - calling > getDisplayName() always returns "GMT+00:00" instead of "Greenwich Mean Time" > or the short form "GMT". This also has implications for date formatting - > creating a SimpleDateFormat with pattern "z", will display the time zone as > "GMT+00:00" instead of "GMT". The harmony implementation of > TimeZone.getDisplayName() is deferring to com.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone for the > value, which has some long display names set , but not GMT, so I'm unsure > where to fix this. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > > -- Yours sincerely, Charles Lee
