Re: GregorianCalendar Problem

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>I have a problem with my sablevm 1.13 on ARM9/Linux and
>>GregorianCalendar-Class. It seems like the date provided by
>>GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar() or GregorianCalendar cal
>>= GregorianCalendar.getInstance()
>>is incorrect. 
> 
> 
> AFAIK this is a known classpath bug that was solved some time ago, but SableVM is not updated to
> current classpath releases and as they joined Apache Harmony it's unlikely they will ever update.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess you'll have either to switch to another classpath-based
> JVM (like Kaffe, CacaoVM or JamVM) or wait untill Harmony makes a useable release. So far they
> provide only snapshots for developers only.

That appears to be true, the last version of Classpath imported into 
sablevm-classpath is 0.20, from Jan. 13, 2006.

I guess the question here is, do we care about keeping Classpath 
compatability while waiting for Harmony?

Chris