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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8141243
+ * @summary Make sure that SimpleDateFormat parses "UTC" as the UTC time zone.
+ * @run main Bug8141243
+ */
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+import static java.util.TimeZone.*;
+
+public class Bug8141243 {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        TimeZone UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
+        TimeZone initTz = TimeZone.getDefault();
+
+        List<String> errors = new ArrayList<>();
+        try {
+            TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles"));
+            for (Locale locale : DateFormat.getAvailableLocales()) {
+                // exclude any locales which localize "UTC".
+                String utc = UTC.getDisplayName(false, SHORT, locale);
+                if (!"UTC".equals(utc)) {
+                    System.out.println("Skipping " + locale + " due to localized UTC name: " + utc);
+                    continue;
+                }
+                SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("z", locale);
+                try {
+                    Date date = fmt.parse("UTC");
+                    // Parsed one may not exactly be UTC. Universal, UCT, etc. are equivalents.
+                    if (!fmt.getTimeZone().getID().matches("(Etc/)?(UTC|Universal|UCT|Zulu)")) {
+                        errors.add("timezone: " + fmt.getTimeZone().getID()
+                                   + ", locale: " + locale);
+                    }
+                } catch (ParseException e) {
+                    errors.add("parse exception: " + e + ", locale: " + locale);
+                }
+            }
+        } finally {
+            // Restore the default time zone
+            TimeZone.setDefault(initTz);
+        }
+
+        if (!errors.isEmpty()) {
+            System.out.println("Got unexpected results:");
+            for (String s : errors) {
+                System.out.println("    " + s);
+            }
+            throw new RuntimeException("Test failed.");
+        } else {
+            System.out.println("Test passed.");
+        }
+    }
+}