Re: Debian 4.0 timezone and Sun Java Problem

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:57:17 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
On 2007-04-26, Jens Poenisch <poenisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I've installed a Debian 4.0 (Etch) system with the Sun Java 5 Packages
(sun-java5-jdk). My timezone ist "Europe/Berlin".
The date command shows the correct time, e.g.
Do 26. Apr 13:08:05 CEST 2007

But the Java commands
System.out.println(java.util.TimeZone.getDefault());
System.out.println(new java.util.Date());

produce the output
sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="GMT+01:00",offset=3600000,dstSavings=0,useDaylight=false,transitions=0,lastRule=null]
Thu Apr 26 12:12:21 GMT+01:00 2007

When I set the TZ variable, the time output is ok.
It's not a problem of the java package, because I get the same bug (?)
with the original Sun's Java distribution.

Can somebody tell me how I can repair this problem (except of setting
the TZ variable)?

My solution was to do a null change/update to the timezone
using the Mandriva Control Center. Indications are that I
could have solved the problem a little more directly by
copying the right file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to
/etc/localtime.

No, the files /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and /etc/localtime
are identically.

That's not the cause.

Jens

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