Comment 2 for bug 360807

The thread I started on c.l.j.p might have some relevant information: <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/dfa4f1e81bf06bc0#>.

As a result of this discussion, I replaced the hard file "/etc/localtime" with a symlink to "/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific". This appears to "fix" the problem, but I have no idea why (I'm waiting for a response to that question). This is even more intriguing, as before I replaced the hard file with a symlink, I did a "cmp" on the two files, which showed they were identical.

Before I did the replacement, an "ls -l" on these files showed the following:

davidkarr@davidkarr-desktop$ ls -lt /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 2009-04-06 08:30 /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 2009-03-30 07:56 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific

Also as a result of this discussion, I downloaded and ran the "tzupdater" tool, but this had no effect on the symptom.