Oracle java 1.6 using wrong time zone with new introduced time zone "Europe/Busingen"

Issue

We were having issues where the default timezone in java was wrong.

# date; java simpleTest
Wed Aug 21 11:21:31 CEST 2013
Simple test

TIME ZONE :GMT+01:00
Value of milliseconds  since Epoch is 1377076891700
Value of s  in readable format is Wed Aug 21 10:21:31 GMT+01:00 2013

But /etc/localtime seemed to be perfect:

zdump /etc/localtime
/etc/localtime  Wed Aug 21 11:30:08 2013 CEST

# md5sum /etc/localtime; md5sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich
1e7d70d8f8b7c4343edfa482a1d6f9b6  /etc/localtime
1e7d70d8f8b7c4343edfa482a1d6f9b6  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich

Deleting the /etc/localtime file and symlink /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich to /etc/localtime seemed to fix the problem.

Javacode used to check:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
class simpleTest
{
        public static void main(String args[])
        {
           System.out.println("Simple test");

           Date now = new Date();
           DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
                Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("\n TIME ZONE :"+ cal.getTimeZone().getDisplayName());
           long nowLong = now.getTime();
           String s = now.toString();
           System.out.println("Value of milliseconds  since Epoch is " + nowLong);
           System.out.println("Value of s  in readable format is " + s);


        }
}