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Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones
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Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones


  • Subject: Re: Snow Leopard and TimeZones
  • From: Q <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:19:36 +1000


On 23/10/2009, at 9:13 AM, Mark Ritchie wrote:

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.

That's strange. On my system both these files are identical (same sha1/ md5 hash), so you wouldn't expect the destination of the symlink to make any significant difference.


Are both these files the same on your system?

--
Seeya...Q

Quinton Dolan - email@hidden
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)




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