Re: [Ikvm-developers] Default locale

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Hi Michael,

The "Malay Peninsula Standard Time" timezone name is not one of the recognized names, so it should fall back to GMT+08:00, but there's a bug in the fall back code. I will fix this, but in the mean time a workaround is to explicitly set the user.timezone Java system property (either in code or via the app.config).

Code (must be executed before the default timezone is first queried):
java.lang.System.setProperty("user.timezone", "Asia/Singapore");

App.Config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="ikvm:user.timezone" value="Asia/Singapore" />
    </appSettings>
</configuration>

Regards,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mi...@sa...]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:52 AM
> To: ikv...@li...
> Subject: [Ikvm-developers] Default locale
> 
> 
> I have a Saxon user in Singapore who appears to be getting a UK locale
> as
> the result of the Java call Locale.getDefault(). Specifically,
> Locale.getDefault().getCountry() appears to be returned as "gb", and
> new
> GregorianCalendar() appears to return a date/time with timezone offset
> 0.
> Yet a screen-shot of the user's control panel shows the timezone set to
> GMT+08:00 (Kuala Lumpur, Singapore), and the C# calls
> 
> TimeZone tz = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone;
> TimeSpan ts = tz.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.Now);
> 
> produce
> 
> tz.StandardName = "Malay Peninsula Standard Time"
> tz.GetUtcOffset(DateTiome.Now) = 08:00:00
> 
> I can't reproduce this effect on my own machine; when I change the
> timezone
> settings in Windows control panel, Locale.getDefault() changes as
> expected.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
> 
> 
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