VM not detecting host timezone correctly (was Clock is not displaying correct ti

The clock does not show the correct time while the windows 95 system does.
We are here in Germany using MET and have changed to Daylight Savings
Time some days ago.

It is now 3.50 pm and Hotjava shows 2:50 pm.

Form the personal properties file:
#HotJava Properties
#Thu Apr 03 14:52:43 GMT+01:00 1997

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Clock gets set to US/Eastern rather than Australian/NSW

Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:21:54 -0700

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The clock seems to display time in GMT-5, but local timezone is GMT-3.

A clocktool running on the same hosts display 11:57PM, while the clock of
hotjava displays 9:57PM. (Company: Institute of Computing, State University of Campinas)

Date: 3 Apr 1997 19:18:48 -0800

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I am running HJ 1.0 on Solaris 2.5 on an Ultra 1. The timezone is set to
MET. But when I start HJ, the time is off by 1.5 hours. For example the
realworld time of 2:00PM is displayed at 3:30PM. And the timezone
displayed is GMT+03:30

This is a *VERY* visible problem. Each and every one of our customers
will complain about this!!!

Date: 9 Apr 1997 05:24:35 -0700

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Running "date" on the command line gives something like
             Fri Apr 11 18:09:28 MET DST 1997
    which we interpret as Middle EuropeanTime - and which is correct by the way.
    HotJava shows
             Apr 11,=04 7:39 PM
    which is obviously 1.5 hours ahead - and which we cannot
    interpret as another time zone, ....

    Furthermore, we can NOT find anything but "Clock On - or - Off"
    within HotJava.

    When using JDK 1.1.1 - using the "date class" - produces similar
    errors, we guess that MET is interpreted as something strange in
    MiddleEast or ....

Date: 11 Apr 1997 09:43:45 -0700

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I have this in my .hotjava/properties file:
hotjava.clock=on
hotjava.clock.format=yMMdd 'v'w: kk:mm

the shell environment variable LANG is set to sv (i.e Swedish)
with this configuration the hotjava clock shows:
970414 v15:02:25
when the "date" command from the shell
shows the correct time of this writing:

14 april 1997 kl 00:56:28 MET DST

Date: 13 Apr 1997 16:09:58