2002-09-25 Jesse Rosenstock <jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu>

	* java/util/TimeZone.java (getDSTSavings): New method.
	Fixes PR libgcj/7786.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@57518 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libjava/java/util/TimeZone.java b/libjava/java/util/TimeZone.java
index eba22363d18..6d4493001f6 100644
--- a/libjava/java/util/TimeZone.java
+++ b/libjava/java/util/TimeZone.java
@@ -961,6 +961,22 @@ public abstract class TimeZone implements java.io.Serializable, Cloneable
   public abstract boolean inDaylightTime(Date date);
 
   /**
+   * Gets the daylight savings offset.  This is a positive offset in
+   * milliseconds with respect to standard time.  Typically this
+   * is one hour, but for some time zones this may be half an our.
+   * <p>The default implementation returns 3600000 milliseconds
+   * (one hour) if the time zone uses daylight savings time
+   * (as specified by {@link #useDaylightTime()}), otherwise
+   * it returns 0.
+   * @return the daylight savings offset in milliseconds.
+   * @since 1.4
+   */
+  public int getDSTSavings ()
+  {
+    return useDaylightTime () ? 3600000 : 0;
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Gets the TimeZone for the given ID.
    * @param ID the time zone identifier.
    * @return The time zone for the identifier or GMT, if no such time