ICU-5801 Merging the correction for time zone formatting/parsing issue note in readme.html from maint-3-8.
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binaries. The build script detects the current Java version and comments out code
blocks including references to J2SE 5.0 only types.</p>
<p>
-<p><b>Changes to timezone text formatting and parsing</b>
-<p>In ICU 3.8, the behavior of date formatting and parsing has changed significantly,
-perhaps requiring recoding on your part depending on your usage. The goal of making
-the change was to return more understandable results from formatting timezones, but
-a byproduct is that the result from formatting with strings z, zzzz, v or vvvv are
-no longer unique, and thus no longer roundtrips. That is, if you use a date format
-with one of these strings, producing a certain output, you can no longer parse that
-output and expect to recover the original timezone.
-<p>What you will be able to get is a related, "best fit" mapping for the name, based
-on the region associated with the current locale and the mappings found in CLDR's
-supplemental data: for example, if you format the time zone "America/Denver",
-getting "Heure des Rocheuses" in French, and then parse, the resulting time zone
-would be "America/Denver" unless the locale in use has the region "CA" (such as
-en-CA or fr-CA), in which case "America/Edmonton" would be retrieved.
-<p>If you require roundtripping, you will need to change your code to use "VVVV"
-instead. If you are working with date patterns based on a locale, then the workaround
-is to use the DateTimePatternGenerator to convert the format you get for a locale to
-using "VVVV".
+<p><b>Changes to timezone formatting and parsing</b>
+<p>In ICU 3.8, the behavior of date formatting and parsing has changed
+significantly, perhaps requiring recoding on your part depending on your
+usage. For more information, see <a href="http://icu-project.org/userguide/formatDateTime.html">
+Formatting Dates and Times</a> in the User Guide.
<p>
<p><b>New features</b>
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