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Originally Posted by knc1
@ixtab: Any chance that Java is somewhere maintaining its own idea of the date/time/tz without reference to the system/hardware clocks?
I.E: A module that should only be used on systems that do not have hardware date/time?
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Nothing specific that I'd know of. But (even without being able to provide exact code), something like "get current time, and display it as Zulu time" should be straightforward to code.
It doesn't really make sense, but it's seemingly what they did. Maybe because they didn't even ship the files required to support time zones in the first place, so they assumed the only "existing" TZ would be UTC anyway?
"Who needs more than one timezone anyway? Or, for that matter, who needs the correct date and time on an e-book reader?"
