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On 05/25/2011 07:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<MPG.2846cfc422e5e705989760@news.justthe.net>, Steve Sobol wrote:
>
>> In article<iric9v$l95$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro says...
>>
>>> So the answer is “no”: you need to download, install and run a separate
>>> tool to apply a patch to fix it up.
>>
>> Funny. At times I've had to do EXACTLYY THE SAME THING to update TZ data
>> in the operating system.
>
> Compare the difference: this
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/3702>  versus this
> <http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/tzupdater/1.3.38/tzupdater-1_3_38-2011e.zip>
>
> The first one is a diff. What does it do? Why, just look at the diff itself,
> and you can see what it does. No hidden surprises there; it’s not even code,
> it’s just data, i.e. timezone rules. How to apply it? Just use patch(1), a
> standard utility available on all self-respecting open-source-based systems.
>
> What’s the second one? It’s a .jar file with a readme. What does it do?
> Don’t know for sure, actually. The readme says one thing, but without source
> code to refer to, how can you be sure?
>
> How do you roll out that Oracle patch? You have to double-click it or
> something on every single system where you want to install it. Do you have
> to reboot or something afterwards? To be safe, probably yes.
>
> How do you roll out the tzdata patch? That’s easy: you can run a bulk SSH
> loop across all your systems.

"No true Scotsman", Lawrence.

-- 
Lew
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Timezones and versions of Java loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 07:38 -0700
  Re: Timezones and versions of Java Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-23 15:45 +0100
    Re: Timezones and versions of Java loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 08:12 -0700
  Re: Timezones and versions of Java Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-23 16:26 +0100
  Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-23 11:58 -0400
  Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-24 11:50 +1200
    Re: Timezones and versions of Java Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-24 02:16 +0200
      Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-24 14:40 +1200
        Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2011-05-24 09:12 +0200
          Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-24 20:25 +1200
            Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-24 08:14 -0400
              Re: Timezones and versions of Java bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-05-25 09:55 +0100
            Re: Timezones and versions of Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-05-24 12:32 +0000
              Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-25 12:04 +1200
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-24 21:57 -0400
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-05-25 09:39 +0300
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-25 19:49 +1200
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-05-25 09:35 +0100
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2011-05-25 14:55 +0300
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-27 13:09 +1200
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-26 22:11 -0400
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-25 09:35 -0700
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-26 11:34 +1200
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-25 21:50 -0400
                Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-25 19:50 +1200
            Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2011-05-24 17:26 +0200
              Re: Timezones and versions of Java Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-25 12:07 +1200
  Re: Timezones and versions of Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-24 19:34 -0700

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