Ubuntu 16.04 with Java 7 Timezone Data

As I found when upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, Java 7 is no longer in the main Ubuntu repository — you have to install it via the OpenJDK PPA. That works nicely, but unfortunately this PPA doesn't include any timezone data.

In previous releases of Ubuntu, Java 6 and 7 timezone data were included via the tzdata-java package; but this package isn't available for Ubuntu 16.04. So I created a new tzdata-java PPA just for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). You can install it like this:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:justinludwig/tzdata
sudo apt-get install tzdata-java

To update my previous blog post: as a set of Ansible tasks, installing Java 7 on Ubuntu 16.04 now just works like this:

- name: register java 7 ppas
  become: yes
  apt_repository: repo={{ item }}
  with_items:
  - 'ppa:openjdk-r/ppa'
  - 'ppa:justinludwig/tzdata'

- name: install java 7 packages
  become: yes
  apt: pkg={{ item }}
  with_items:
  - openjdk-7-jdk
  - tzdata-java