FW: Help regarding the timezone update data

[Dirk Losch]

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:

> 
> > From: Salil G K (sagk) [mailto:sagk <at> cisco.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:22
> >
> > I tested by writing a simple java program  which will just print Date from
the system.
> 
> Java has its own time zone database.  Perhaps your test is consulting
> Java's database rather than the tz database.  That would explain why
> changing the tz database doesn't affect your program's behavior.
> 
> 
Hi Sali,

perhaps you should check out this for java applications:

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/
(Java date and time API which uses tzdata)

best regards

 - dirk -