masayoshi.okutsu@Eng 1997-01-13
The following has been reported by Toshiba.
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Description:
  java.text.DateFormat.format(Date) always uses PST instead of
local time zone in japanese environment.

for example:
public class DateTest {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println(java.text.DateFormat.getDateTimeFormat().format(new
Date(0L)));
  }
}

prints '69/12/31 16:00:00' in japanese environment.
  In japan, the Epoch is '70/01/01 09:00:00 GMT+0900'.

Cause:
  JDK-1.1beta2 and current release has no DateFormatZoneData for Japanese,
java runtime uses US English version of that.

  java.text.DateFormat#private getDefault(int, Locale) method, line 554:
...
            result.setCalendar(Calendar.getDefault((SimpleTimeZone)
                               TimeZone.getTimeZone(data.zoneStrings[0][0]),
                               desiredLocale));
...
where data is an DateFormatData, gets TimeZone from
 data.zoneStrings[0][0]. So DateFormat gets its TimeZone by
 getTimeZone("PST"), and it drives DateFormat#format()
 to print time in PST.