Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones
Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones
- From: Mark Ritchie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:13:13 -0400
Hey David!
On 20Oct2009, at 8:21 AM, David LeBer wrote:
The disconnect appears to be somewhere between the system timezone
and Java.
Well, it appears to me that there are a couple of things going on
here... Apparently Java is having some troubles however I had a
chance to check this on a Leopard machine today and I see why we
didn't see this problem before SnowLeopard.
When you select the Toronto timezone (and possibly other areas...),
you get a different timezone file selections:
On Leopard /etc/localtime is sym-linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/
Eastern
On SnowLeopard /etc/localtime is sym-linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/
America/Toronto
So, a work around on SnowLeopard is to sym-link /etc/localtime to /usr/
share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern and avoid setting the timezone with
System Preferences.
Some belt and suspenders: When I sym-linked /etc/localtime to /usr/
share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto on Leopard, I saw the same broken
behaviour as we're seeing on SnowLeopard... For both Java 1.5 and Java
1.4.2.
Finally, the America/Toronto convention above is from the folks who
maintain the timezone files, not mine! ;-)
HTH,
M.
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