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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by toast0 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:35PM (#24954985)
Even if that is true now, it certainly wasn't always true. When did Java add its trust store, and when did Windows and Debian and Solaris?

There's also a consistency issue --- write once, run everywhere doesn't work if you need to resign your webstart program based on the OS you're running on.

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Re:Governments Worldwide Consider Ditching Daylight Saving Time by lodovic on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:01PM (#24955174)
Not sure about that, the Windows certificate store has been around since forever, perhaps even since Windows NT. The same goes for certificate management in Linux. I think it was mostly because it was far easier for the Java team to roll their own extendable store instead of doing all the platform integration themselves.
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