Name: mf23781 Date: 10/05/98


*Symptoms:

My PC has a NT 4.0 Japanese version. Java version is "1.1.7".
Time zone setting is EDT(GMT-5:00), and current time is 9:34:00.77.
When I execute the following program.

*** program ***
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class test extends Object
{
   /*---------------------------------------*/
   /* main function */
   /*---------------------------------------*/
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
      DateFormat f = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
      System.out.println(f.format(c.getTime()));
      System.out.println(TimeZone.getDefault().getID());
      System.out.println(f.getTimeZone().getID());
   }
}
*** end of program ***

choosing Japanese from the Regional settings
I get the following output:

=========================================
D:+AFw-java+AFw-work>java test
1998/10/05 22:34:28
JST
JST
=========================================

When I change the Regional setting to U.S English my output
is as follows:

=========================================
D:+AFw-java+AFw-work>java test
05-Oct-98 6:34:06 AM
PST
PST
==========================================


I guess that the default time zone of JDK is depending on the
regional setting. But the regional setting is a setting for only
representations of country dependent things such as number,
currency, date/time format, etc... I think that default time
zone should not depend on a regional setting but a time zone
setting.
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The licensee has some extra comments :
First of all when I run the same test case on JDK1.1.7 choosing GMT as the time
zone of my Japanese machine from the Control Panel, and with the current time of
17:55:16 I get the following outputs:



"Time Zone: GMT"
"Regional Settings: U.K. English"

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P:\defects\6681
05-Oct-98 16:55:16 AM
GMT
GMT
==========================================

"Time Zone: GMT"
"Regional Settings: Japanese"

==========================================
P:\defects\6681
1998/10/05 16:56:16
GMT
GMT
==========================================

As you can see the outputs I get when I set the time zone to GMT are different
from those I get when the time zone is EDT i.e. the time zone is correct but
for a reason I can't understand the time I get is an hour behind than the actual
time.

Now the other thing I would like to mention is that on on JDK-fcs1.2-J another
defect happens when I run the above code either choosing U.K English or
Japanese from the Regional Settings:

"Time Zone: GMT"
"Regional Settings: U.K. English"

==========================================
P:\defects\6681
05-Oct-98 17:55:16 AM
Europe/London
Europe/London
==========================================

First of all it seems that the problem we had with the time before has been
solved, but this time we have a problem with the time zone again. Not that it's not the
right one but I would expect to see GMT instead of Europe/London