Name: md23716 Date: 09/24/2001

Platform: Solaris
Operating System Level/Version: 5.7
Specific Sun Release Information: Solaris_1.2.2_09


In the year 2000, several of the Australian states changed their DST rules because of the Olympics. Clocks were moved forward in late August, rather than late October. Although this was only a one off change it appears to have been incorporated in Sun's 1.2.2 Solaris JDK as a permanent rule.

This problem is fixed in the 1.3.1 JDK, which uses the latest official DST rules.

Testcase:

    public class TZtest
    {
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
        }
    }

Recreation:

    javac -g TZtest.java

    export TZ="GB"
    java TZTest ; date

    export TZ="Australia/NSW"
    java TZTest ; date

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