Name: dk106046 Date: 01/12/2004

The problem reported is that the TimeZone.getDefault() doesn't reflect the rules part (startDayOfWeek and endDayOfWeek) of the TZ environmental variable.

Please find below a small testcase which displays the default timezone information.

import java.util.*;
public class test {
        public static void main(String args[]) {
                System.out.println( "\nJava default Timezone=" +
                           TimeZone.getDefault() );

System.out.println("\n Java date=" +
                                (new java.util.Date()) );
       }
}

A sample run is as follows:

$export TZ=NZST-12NZDT,M10.1.0,M3.3.1
$
$ java test

Java default Timezone=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=Pacific/Auckland,offset=43200000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=9,startDay=1,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=1,endMode=3,endMonth=2,endDay=15,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=1]

Java date=Wed Jan 07 22:45:36 NZDT 2004
$

Notice that the startdayofweek/EnddayofWeek do not reflect that in the TZ env variable.

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