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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br />
- <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 4.8 Release Candidate 1 ReadMe</h1>
+ <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 4.8 ReadMe</h1>
- <p>Last updated: 2011-May-12<br />
+ <p>Last updated: 2011-May-23<br />
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See the <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/48">ICU 4.8 download</a> page for details.</p>
<h3>Unknown system time zone - Etc/Unknown</h3>
- <p>The behavior of the time zone factory method TimeZone::createTimeZone(const UnicodeString&) has changed in this release.
+ <p>The behavior of the time zone factory method TimeZone::createTimeZone(const UnicodeString&) has changed in this release.
When an unknown time zone ID is specified in the method, previous versions return a TimeZone instance
with ID "GMT" (offset 0 and no daylight saving time). In ICU 4.8, the method uses "Etc/Unknown" as the
time zone ID (but still offset 0 and no daylight saving time) for the case. Existing software checking