Hi all,
There is a pending issue with the time zone data in openjdk-8 I'd like
to discuss.
Starting with OpenJDK 8 the format of the timezone data used by the Java
runtime is different from the previous versions. With OpenJDK 6 & 7
there was a set of files, one per timezone, under the
$JAVA_HOME/
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 1. Do nothing. The timezone data will be updated with the quarterly
> updates of OpenJDK.
Sounds like OpenJDK has an embedded copy of tzdata? Can we get
upstream to disentangle that, at least for their source releases?
> 2. Copy the sources
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> 5. Implement a java.time.zone.ZoneRulesProvider [3] that reads the TZif2
> files installed by the tzdata package in /usr/share/zoneinfo. This would
> render the tzdata-java package obsolete in the long term. GNU ClassPath
> has a TZif2 parser [4] that co
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 01:22:57AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a pending issue with the time zone data in openjdk-8 I'd like
> to discuss.
>
> Starting with OpenJDK 8 the format of the timezone data used by the Java
> runtime is different from the previous versions. W
Le 14/08/2014 16:10, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> I am really reluctant to add yet another format of tzdata. Another
> possible solution not listed above is to modify openjdk-8 to use the
> same format as openjdk-8. As far as I understand, it should be about
> porting the openjdk-7 code to openjdk-8
Le 08/08/2014 05:04, Paul Wise a écrit :
> Sounds like OpenJDK has an embedded copy of tzdata? Can we get
> upstream to disentangle that, at least for their source releases?
I'm not sure this is possible. OpenJDK has a copy of tzdata plus
additional timezones [1] kept to preserve the compatibilit
Emmanuel Bourg writes:
> Le 08/08/2014 05:04, Paul Wise a écrit :
>> Sounds like OpenJDK has an embedded copy of tzdata? Can we get
>> upstream to disentangle that, at least for their source releases?
> I'm not sure this is possible. OpenJDK has a copy of tzdata plus
> additional timezones [1] k
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Why not, but the compiler for the old format isn't provided by
> openjdk-8, so we'll have another issue when openjdk-7 is removed
> (probably in Jessie+1). The old compiler would have to be copied into
Eh, just do that before the freeze if you don’t ma
Le 08/08/2014 01:22, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit :
> 5. Implement a java.time.zone.ZoneRulesProvider [3] that reads the TZif2
> files installed by the tzdata package in /usr/share/zoneinfo. This would
> render the tzdata-java package obsolete in the long term. GNU ClassPath
> has a TZif2 parser [4] tha
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