SUN Olson TZ data tzdata2005r or greater incompatibility

  • Document ID:3008665
  • Creation Date:09-Mar-2007
  • Modified Date:26-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      NetWare

Environment

Java SE v1.4.x

Situation

Sun Alert 102836 "Olson TZ Data (tzdata2005r or greater) Incompatibility Issues"
Sun as released a document to address a issue with Daylight Saving time for Java
  • JDK and JRE v1.4.2_12 and above
  • JDK and JRE 5.0u8 and above
  • JDK and JRE 6 and above
  • any instance of java that has been update by the TZUpdater tool.

This condition will be apparent under one of the following two circumstances:

A)The use of old 3-letter TZ IDs, limited to: "EST", "HST", "MST".

Or:

B)The parsing of date strings containing one of the following three TZ strings: "EDT", "HDT", or"MDT".

Resolution

All Novell products which rely on the Sun JRE need this update to avoid Daylight Saving Time issues.