proposal: add API to TimeZone for 2.8

Please respond with comments by Dec 24th (if you want to make it on Santa's
list...)

In JDK 1.4, the TimeZone class has two methods that are missing from the ICU4J
TimeZone class.  These are:

public int getOffset(long date);
public int getDSTSavings();

for the former, ICU instead has the following API:

public void getOffset(long, boolean, int[]);

I propose adding the two missing methods.  The existing getOffset will remain
as an overload of the new one.



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