On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> Many thanks to those who have tested.
> My greatest thanks go to Art Kraymer who correctly pointed out that this 
> update was *not needed*.  The j2sdk that we pushed out in the errata's last 
> time (j2sdk-1.4.2_12) actually has the correct time zone changes.

but not for some Canadians; it contains date set 2006a; for
America/Vancouver we need 2006g.  Thus for our systems I applied the patch
via tzupdater a few days ago to the Tier1 centre; here is example output
showing that the patch goes from set 2006a to 2007a:

# java -jar ~deatrich/tz/tzupdater2007a/tzupdater.jar -v -u
java.home: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_12/jre
java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.version: 1.4.2_12
JRE time zone data version: tzdata2006a
Embedded time zone data version: tzdata2007a
Extracting files... done.
Renaming directories... done.
Validating the new time zone data... done.
Time zone data update is complete.

and diff-ing the orig. and the patched java tree:

# diff -r j2sdk1.4.2_12 j2sdk1.4.2_12.sv
...
Binary files j2sdk1.4.2_12/jre/lib/zi/America/Vancouver and j2sdk1.4.2_12.sv/jre/lib/zi/America/Vancouver differ
...

In other words, it is often the small regional differences that matter..

cheers,
  denice
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