Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-14 Thread O'Neill, Brian
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vladimir Sizikov Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 01:19 PM To: Discussion of the Joda project Subject: Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux Hi Brian, Thanks for the responses and lots of useful info! My comments below. On Mon, Jul 14

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
Hi Brian, Thanks for the responses and lots of useful info! My comments below. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Brian S O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To my knowledge, Joda-Time has no special case for MET. It just uses the > Olson database, which also provides rules for backwards compatibi

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-14 Thread Brian S O'Neill
To my knowledge, Joda-Time has no special case for MET. It just uses the Olson database, which also provides rules for backwards compatibility. Here's the only data I found which refers to "MET": # These are for backward compatibility with older versions. # ZoneNAMEGMTOFFRULES

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-14 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, P.Hill & E. Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is nothing "proper" about converting MET to Middle European Time > or to MiddleEast Time (even though the second one is less common than > the first). By "proper" I meant in sync with Olson TZ database. An

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-14 Thread P.Hill & E. Goodall
There is nothing "proper" about converting MET to Middle European Time or to MiddleEast Time (even though the second one is less common than the first). The general problem is that the three letter abbreviations are not unique (and need not be), so adding additional special case fallback rules

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-08 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
t; --Vladimir > >> >> -----Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vladimir >> Sizikov >> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:15 PM >> To: joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Joda-interest] Major i

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-08 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
a:116) Thanks, --Vladimir > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vladimir > Sizikov > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:15 PM > To: joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda ti

Re: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-08 Thread O'Neill, Brian
12:15 PM To: joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux Hi, I'm currently investigating a couple of JRuby issues related to Time (and JRuby uses joda-time internally, with much satisfaction, I might add). The particular issue is

[Joda-interest] Major issues with joda time on Ubuntu Linux

2008-07-08 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
Hi, I'm currently investigating a couple of JRuby issues related to Time (and JRuby uses joda-time internally, with much satisfaction, I might add). The particular issue is here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-2541 Essentially, it boils down to a fact that Ubuntu users with US timezones e