Bug#203212: libgcj4: gcj handles timezones wrongly

[Stepan Koltsov <yozh@banana.mx1.ru>]

Package: libgcj4
Version: 1:3.3.1-0rc1
Severity: normal


At first, I am not sure it is bug of libgcj, I report bug here beacuse
both gij and gcj depends on this package. The bug is: gij subtracts
time from GMT time when it should add. Look at output below:

##### TZ='Europe/Kaliningrad'; export TZ
##### gij Main
Mon Jul 28 13:19:15 GMT-02:00 2003
##### java Main
Mon Jul 28 18:19:22 EEST 2003
##### date
Mon Jul 28 18:19:24 EEST 2003
##### TZ='Europe/Moscow'; export TZ
##### gij Main
Mon Jul 28 12:19:33 GMT-03:00 2003
##### java Main
Mon Jul 28 19:19:37 MSD 2003
##### date
Mon Jul 28 19:19:39 MSD 2003

Moscow's timezone is GMT+3 at summer, not GMT-3.

java is Sun's Java.

##### cat Main.java
import java.util.*;
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new Date());
    }
}
#####


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux banana.mx1.ru 2.4.18 #3 Thu Jun 27 17:31:10 UTC 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R

Versions of packages libgcj4 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.1-17     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.1-0rc1 GCC support library
ii  libgcj-common               1:3.3.1-0rc1 Java runtime library (common files
ii  xlibs                       4.2.1-8      X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.4-13   compression library - runtime

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