user.timezone property

[Steven Augart]

I've noticed that more than one VM defines a user.timezone property.

Does anyone know where this is officially documented?  The string 
"user.timezone" does not appear anywhere in the Sun 1.4.2 API 
specification.

I'm not sure whether we need to provide it, and if so, what the format 
should be for it.

It seems to me that, if someone wanted the name of the current time 
zone, the best thing to do would be to call 
java.util.TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName().

Maybe we don't need user.timezone?  Does anyone know of any programs 
that actually use it?

In Jikes RVM, we can't call 
kava.util.TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName() from 
VMRuntime.insertSystemProperties()  --- it's too early in the boot 
sequence.  I can, of course, add special code later on in the boot 
sequence to initialize user.timezone, but I don't want to make the 
booting process more complicated if it's not going to serve a useful 
purpose.

--Steve Augart

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