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user.timezone property
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Steven Augart |
Subject: |
user.timezone property |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:11:11 -0500 |
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I've noticed that more than one VM defines a user.timezone property.
Does anyone know where this is officially documented? The string
"user.timezone" does not appear anywhere in the Sun 1.4.2 API
specification.
I'm not sure whether we need to provide it, and if so, what the format
should be for it.
It seems to me that, if someone wanted the name of the current time
zone, the best thing to do would be to call
java.util.TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName().
Maybe we don't need user.timezone? Does anyone know of any programs
that actually use it?
In Jikes RVM, we can't call
kava.util.TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName() from
VMRuntime.insertSystemProperties() --- it's too early in the boot
sequence. I can, of course, add special code later on in the boot
sequence to initialize user.timezone, but I don't want to make the
booting process more complicated if it's not going to serve a useful
purpose.
--Steve Augart
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