Java and timezone issues!

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On 04/18/2009 10:59 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Somebody posted on comp.lang.java the other day about problems with 
> Ubuntu and Java timezones not reflecting daylight savings times 
> accurately.  I don't want to rehash that discussion but the question was 
> asked here the other day, what update messes with the /etc/localtime 
> file.  It is tzdata that came in today's updates.  It rewrites the link 
> at /etc/localtime that points to /usr/share/zoneinfo/??? to be a file. 
> This stops Java from figuring out the timezone correctly.
> 
> knute...
> 

Knute, see the "How to figure out which, if any, update changed
/etc/localtime from	a link to a hard file?" thread started by David.