diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/cldr/FixEras.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/cldr/FixEras.java
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+/*
+ * Created on Sep 17, 2004
+ *
+ * TODO To change the template for this generated file go to
+ * Window - Preferences - Java - Code Generation - Code and Comments
+ */
+package com.ibm.icu.dev.tool.cldr;
+
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+import com.ibm.icu.dev.tool.UOption;
+
+/**
+ * @author ram
+ *
+ * TODO To change the template for this generated type comment go to
+ * Window - Preferences - Java - Code Generation - Code and Comments
+ */
+public class FixEras {
+    /**
+     * These must be kept in sync with getOptions().
+     */
+    private static final int HELP1 = 0;
+    private static final int HELP2 = 1;
+    private static final int DESTFILE = 2;
+    
+    private static final UOption[] options = new UOption[] {
+            UOption.HELP_H(),
+            UOption.HELP_QUESTION_MARK(),
+            UOption.DESTDIR(),
+            
+    };
+    private String  destfile     = null;
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        FixEras cnv = new FixEras();
+        cnv.processArgs(args);
+    }
+    
+    private void usage() {
+        System.out.println("\nUsage: FixEras [OPTIONS] [XPATH1] [XPATH2]\n\n"+
+                "This program is used to extract nodes from extract LDML file and merge \n"+
+                "the extracted nodes with the main LDML file\n"+
+                "Please refer to the following options. Options are not case sensitive.\n"+
+                "Options:\n"+
+                "-d or --destination        destination directory, followed by the path, default is current directory.\n"+
+                "-h or -? or --help         this usage text.\n"+
+                "example: com.ibm.icu.dev.tool.cldr.FixErs ar.xml\n"
+                );        System.exit(-1);
+    }
+    
+    private void processArgs(String[] args) {
+        int remainingArgc = 0;
+        try{
+            remainingArgc = UOption.parseArgs(args, options);
+        }catch (Exception e){
+            System.err.println("ERROR: "+ e.toString());
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            usage();
+        }
+        if(args.length==0 || options[HELP1].doesOccur || options[HELP2].doesOccur) {
+            usage();
+        }
+
+        if(options[DESTFILE].doesOccur) {
+            destfile = options[DESTFILE].value;
+        }
+        if(destfile==null){
+           throw new RuntimeException("Destination not specified");
+        }
+        if(remainingArgc<1){
+            usage();
+            System.exit(-1);
+        }
+        try{
+            Document maindoc = LDMLUtilities.parse(args[0], false);
+            System.out.println("INFO: Fixing eras");
+            fixEras(maindoc);
+            maindoc.normalize();
+            OutputStreamWriter writer = new
+            OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(destfile),"UTF-8");
+            PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(writer);
+            LDMLUtilities.printDOMTree(maindoc,pw);
+            writer.flush(); 
+            writer.close();
+         }catch( Exception e){ 
+             e.printStackTrace();
+             //System.exit(-1);
+         }
+    }
+    private void fixEras(Document doc){
+        Node[] nodes = LDMLUtilities.getElementsByTagName(doc, LDMLConstants.ERA);
+        if(nodes!=null){
+            for(int i=0; i<nodes.length; i++){
+                NamedNodeMap attr = nodes[i].getAttributes();
+                Node type = attr.getNamedItem(LDMLConstants.TYPE);
+                if(type!=null){
+                    String val = type.getNodeValue();
+                    int j = Integer.parseInt(val);
+                    if(j>0){
+                        j--;
+                    }
+                    type.setNodeValue(Integer.toString(j));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}