Even though a time zone does not observe DST, "getDSTSavings()" is returning a non-zero value.

After discussing further with other I18N SQE, it was felt that this can be confusing to a user. Though the user does have "useDaylightTime()" to figure out whether the time zone observes DST, having "getDSTSavings()" return a contradicting value is inconsistent.

Here's a quick program to demonstrate this:

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import java.util.*;

public class GetDSTSavingsTest {

    SimpleTimeZone stz;

    public GetDSTSavingsTest() {
        stz = (SimpleTimeZone)TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Tokyo");

        System.out.println("Observes daylight savings time? " +
                           stz.useDaylightTime());
        System.out.println("Daylight savings time value(should be 0 if not " +
                           "observed): " + stz.getDSTSavings());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new GetDSTSavingsTest();
    }
}

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edmund.lou@eng 1999-12-17