The new time api that was introduced with java 8 allows to conveniently work with timezones and takes care whether a time within a specific timezone is currently in daylight savings time (DST) or not. Therefore specific rules are used. Eg. In europe:
- DST starts on the last sunday of march
- DST ends on the last sunday of october
In the future these rules might change since the EU wants to dismiss DST permanently. How would such a new regulation affect java's time library? Would such a change require every application that relies on correct datetimes to upgrade to a new java version? (In other words: would all applications that still "need" to run on a java8 JRE work with wrong dates/times?)
