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Bug 1677093 - The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component icu / rhel8
Summary: The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component icu / rhel8
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: icu
Version: 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.1
Assignee: Mike FABIAN
QA Contact: Satyabrata Maitra
URL:
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Depends On: 1677090 1677092
Blocks: 1654309 1677091 1688570 1710589
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-14 02:51 UTC by Christian Horn
Modified: 2021-08-30 13:06 UTC (History)
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Clone Of: 1677092
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 22:19:03 UTC
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Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2749651 0 Learn more None Does the change of the Japanese Era affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux? 2019-02-14 02:51:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:3580 0 None None None 2019-11-05 22:19:06 UTC

Description Christian Horn 2019-02-14 02:51:34 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1677092 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1677090 +++

Description of problem:
The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component icu / rhel5
icu code is referring to the japanese era name.

(snippet from the rhel7 icu code)
 364 void IntlCalendarTest::TestJapanese() {
 365     UDate timeA = Calendar::getNow();
 366     
 367     /* Sorry.. japancal.h is private! */
 368 #define JapaneseCalendar_MEIJI  232
 369 #define JapaneseCalendar_TAISHO 233
 370 #define JapaneseCalendar_SHOWA  234
 371 #define JapaneseCalendar_HEISEI 235
 372     
 373     // BE 2542 == 1999 CE
 374     int32_t data[] = { 
 375         //       Jera         Jyr  Gyear   m             d
 376         JapaneseCalendar_MEIJI, 1, 1868, UCAL_SEPTEMBER, 8,
 377         JapaneseCalendar_MEIJI, 1, 1868, UCAL_SEPTEMBER, 9,
 378         JapaneseCalendar_MEIJI, 2, 1869, UCAL_JUNE, 4,
 379         JapaneseCalendar_MEIJI, 45, 1912, UCAL_JULY, 29,
 380         JapaneseCalendar_TAISHO, 1, 1912, UCAL_JULY, 30,
 381         JapaneseCalendar_TAISHO, 1, 1912, UCAL_AUGUST, 1,
 382         
 383         // new tests (not in java)
 384         JapaneseCalendar_SHOWA,     64,   1989,  UCAL_JANUARY, 7,  // Test current era transition (different code path than others)
 385         JapaneseCalendar_HEISEI,    1,   1989,  UCAL_JANUARY, 8,
 386         JapaneseCalendar_HEISEI,    1,   1989,  UCAL_JANUARY, 9,
 387         JapaneseCalendar_HEISEI,    1,   1989,  UCAL_DECEMBER, 20,
 388         JapaneseCalendar_HEISEI,  15,  2003,  UCAL_MAY, 22,
 389         -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
 390     };

Actual results:
No reference to the upcoming era.

Expected results:
The upcoming era name should properly be dealed with.

Additional info:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_transition,_2019
- the new era name has not yet been announced.
- We also have to modify glibc (for example bz1555189) and openjdk.
Comment 1 omps 2019-04-01 05:38:35 UTC 
New Japanese era name was announced a few minutes ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2019_April_1

more formal one : https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-names-new-era-reiwa
Comment 2 Mike FABIAN 2019-05-09 07:58:02 UTC 
I think the best way to fix this is to rebase from  icu-60.2 (which is currently in RHEL-8) to the maintenance release icu-60.3.
Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2019-05-15 10:07:49 UTC 
https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=21687194
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:19:03 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3580
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