java tz updates

[Abhijit Saha]

  I'm from Oracle and do manage this tzupdater release. Yes, tzupdater 
tool with Olson 2010k is
not freely available and we need to contact support folks to have it.
v 1.3.33 with Olson 2010l  is now available via support folks also.

Now v1.3.29 freely available for download and we're working on to 
release v1.3.31 with Olson 2010i
from download site (expected GA on Monday).

Thanks
Abhijit

On 8/20/2010 3:52 AM, Alistair Forbes wrote:
> Hi Stephen
>
> Thanks for the link - unfortunately they only provide a download for 
> 1.3.29 and the version with 2010k is 1.3.33 ("Please contact your 
> local SunServices Office to obtain this version").
>
> I will have another look at Joda time - it could work for a few cases 
> we have.
>
> Al
>
> On 08/20/2010 12:44 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>> You could try Google:
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzupdater-readme-136440.html 
>>
>>
>> Or Joda-Time
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On 20 August 2010 11:05, Alistair 
>> Forbes<alistair.forbes at 2e-systems.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Apologies if this is a bit off-topic as it's specific only to java
>>> timezones.
>>>
>>> The latest 2010k updates for java are not (yet) freely available 
>>> from Sun. (
>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzdata-versions-138805.html 
>>> )
>>>
>>> I have not looked into it, but I assume if I pay I could get the 
>>> update. For
>>> Linux there there is a package "tzdata-java" which updates
>>> /usr/share/javazi/ but this does not used by the Sun JDK.
>>>
>>> Anyone know is an alternative to updating the Sun JDK timezones? I 
>>> can of
>>> course program something - cases like Egypt changing time for 
>>> Ramadan are
>>> fairly rare.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Al
>>>
>
>

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