Applet user.region and user.timezone

Hi,

I am trying to get a Java applet working on Windows and Linux. The problem
is that it requires specific values to be set for user.reqion and
user.timezone.

On Windows I can set these in the Java Plug-In control panel. This is not
ideal but at least it gets the job done (it means all applets will get the
same fixed values for these properties), it would be nice to be able to
set them on a per-applet basis.

I've so far not found a way to do the same for Linux. Here, user.timezone
is set, but it's a blank string. user.region is not even in the
System properties. I thought that the JVM might get the timezone from the
environment variables TZ or TIMEZONE, but it doesn't.

Does anyone have any idea where Java gets the values for these
properties in Linux, and how I can override them for an applet?

--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail :    nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone :     +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555

Why is it, that 10 minutes after posting a question you find the answer
yourself, regardless of how long you spend looking for an answer prior to
that?

For anyone else who has difficulty in doing this, the JRE has a
ControlPanel in JRE_HOME/bin/ControlPanel. This does the same as the
Windows control panel.

I still don't know where Java gets it's default values for user.timezone
and user.region...


--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail :    nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone :     +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:37:50 +0100, Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
wrote or quoted :

>Why is it, that 10 minutes after posting a question you find the answer
>yourself, regardless of how long you spend looking for an answer prior to
>that?

Because in formulating the question clearly for others it clarifies
your own thinking?

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:43:54 GMT, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:37:50 +0100, Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
.. 
>
> Because in formulating the question clearly for others it clarifies
> your own thinking?

Naah..  I put it down to the 'Precognition Fairy',
who grants you the knowlege you require, 5 minutes
before you need it.

..Trouble is, the XXXXX is always 15 minutes late.   ;-)

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