to avoid any confusion * Oracle RDBMS, EBS , Solaris and Java do use IANA tz info and we monitor this list * since tzupdater 2.0 people can use the latest TZdata for Java see www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzdata-versions-138805.html * Oracle RDBMS and EBS consolidates this roughly in a 6 monthly cycle see note 412160.1 Updated DST Transitions and New Time Zones in Oracle RDBMS and OJVM Time Zone File Patches on our support website * Oracle Solaris also provides updates see note 1982859.1 Solaris Daylight Saving Time (DST) Updates for 2015 on our support website Gunther On 4/07/2015 2:17, Brian Inglis wrote:
some DB and development product vendors also do not use IANA tz info, so e.g. Oracle should also be copied to update DBs and Java;