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sun-java5 package

  1. Bug #49068
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 49068

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Christian Assig (chrassig) wrote :

Something seemed to be wrong with /etc/localtime in my case.

The following solved the problem on my feisty machine:

sudo cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bak
sudo ln -s -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2312649

Note however that my old /etc/localtime is binary identical to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam. So it looks to me like Java expects to find a symbolic link here, and the time zone detection fails if Java encounters a regular file instead of the link.