While attempting to verify bug: 4300378, I came across the following exception. It starts at Merlin-beta b45.

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo
        at GetDSTSavingsTest.<init>(GetDSTSavingsTest.java:8)
        at GetDSTSavingsTest.main(GetDSTSavingsTest.java:17)
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The following program reproduces it:

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import java.util.*;

public class GetDSTSavingsTest {

    SimpleTimeZone stz;

    public GetDSTSavingsTest() {
        stz = (SimpleTimeZone)TimeZone.getTimeZone("Asia/Tokyo");

        System.out.println("Observes daylight savings time? " +
                           stz.useDaylightTime());
        System.out.println("Daylight savings time value(should be 0 if not " +
                           "observed): " + stz.getDSTSavings());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new GetDSTSavingsTest();
    }
}
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edmund.lou@eng 2001-01-02
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