Name: avC70361 Date: 07/23/98



  The java.util.TimeZone.setID(String ID) and java.util.SimpleTimeZone constructors
specs don't specify behaviour in case of null parameter. Usually, NullPointerException
is expected to be thrown when null parameter is passed to a method. But the current
implementation doesn't throw it and R&D team has closed the bug 4154541 which was
filed for the reason as "will not fix". As this behaviour is not obvious to the
customers, it needs to be explicitly specified.

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