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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br />
- <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 4.7.1 (4.8M1) ReadMe</h1>
+ <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 4.8 Release Candidate 1 ReadMe</h1>
- <p>Last updated: 2011-Mar-14<br />
+ <p>Last updated: 2011-May-12<br />
Copyright © 1997-2011 International Business Machines Corporation and
others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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with several improvements and some incompatible changes.
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.
+ 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
+ the returned time zone ID to validate the input ID may need to be updated to support the new behavior.</p>
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