TZupdater usage feedback requested

[Marc Ahrendt]

below was run on HP-UX 11.00 with Java 1.4.2.05

/opt/java/bin/java -jar tzupdater.jar -t
/data/tzdata2006p.test:16: test failed: America/Adak
...
/data/tzdata2006p.test:5353: test failed: Australia/Lord_Howe
Validation tests failed.

is this expected? i am just unsure if i should run the command next using "-f" or "-u" or "-bc". i know the TZ data in our installed version of java is pretty old (uses tzdata2003a), so not sure if the failed tests should be expected and are OK to ignore ...would like to get feedback on how to proceed (keep in mind i have read the readme file and just uncertain from that info what i should now do ...and why JDK 1.1 has to do with -bc and if it is relevant to my system)

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

The -t option is just verification and exits. If you have not done the update yet you will have the errors. Once the update is complete then run with the -t option and there should be no data returned. At least that's how it worked for me.

[Marc Ahrendt]

rick, thx for the feedback ...running it with "-t" after running with "-u" gave no failures. i use "-u" instead of "-f" because i knew already my updates would be newer, and did not use "-bc" since we never have used our code with JDK 1.1 so no worries there.