JDK-8034220 : AIX: Provide better time zone mappings (i.e. tzmappings file)
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util:i18n
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: aix
  • Submitted: 2014-02-11
  • Updated: 2014-07-29
  • Resolved: 2014-04-16
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Description
Our current implementation doesn't do any special time zone mapping on AIX.

It would be nice to get a jre/lib/tzmappings file from our IBM colleagues and implement a native to Java time zone mapping for AIX much in the same way as this is done on Windows.