The JVM (Merlin beta-refesh b69) crashes during the start of Forte for Java 3.0 in the java.util.TimeZone.getSystemTimeZoneID call on Windows 2000 (full stack-trace attached).

After some experiments it seems that the only problematic time zone is
(GMT +1:00) Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague

Other time zones, e.g.
(GMT +1:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
seem to be ok.