This bug was originally filed as 4963212, which was closed as a duplicate
of 4761696 because it displayed the same symptoms, according to the
comments in 4963212. I can't reopen 4963212 because company policy
is to not allow duplicates to be reopened, hence this new bug.
I'm assigning the bug to i18n because the problem doesn't look to
be in the vm upon superficial examination.

Steps to reproduce

JCK="/net/koori.sfbay/onestop/jck/1.5/promoted/beta/b08/binaries/JCK-runtime-15"
JDK="/net/koori.sfbay/onestop/jdk/1.5.0/promoted/all/b32/binaries/linux-amd64"
switches="-showversion"
CP="$JCK/classes:$JCK/lib/javatest.jar"

$JDK/bin/java $switches -cp $CP javasoft.sqe.tests.api.java.util.SimpleTimeZone.setXXXRuleTests -TestCaseID ALL