Re: user.timezone property

[Steven Augart]

David Holmes wrote:
[...]
> I fill in user.timezone during insertSystemProperties at the same time as
> all the other dynamic properties that have to be obtained from the OS: file
> encoding, user name, os name, current dir etc etc.

Jikes RVM sets those in "runrvm", a shell script that calls the actual 
C executable.

[....]
> The native code with classpath seems to have a bug in it though because it
> ignores tzname[1] when it is different to tzname[0] rather than when it is
> the same.

Yes, I see it too. I should get the rest of my night's sleep and then 
think about a test case to manifest the problem.

[....]
> My feeling is that user.timezone is not a property that is filled in for use
> by application code, but rather for one part of the VM to communicate
> indirectly with another part. 

This makes sense, yes.  Now I know why I want to set it; my test 
program that calls TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName() always 
prints "Greenwich Mean Time" if I don't.

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