date parse errors again...

Tue Oct 2 09:18:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Niklas" == Niklas Fondberg <niklas.fondberg@i3micro.com> writes:

Niklas> I get totally different results of the parsed date with jdk
Niklas> 1.3 (sun) and gcj 3.0.2. How come? I tried everything but the
Niklas> only way I could get it to work in gcj was to set the
Niklas> DateFormat timezone to my own! Which is strange because
Niklas> obviously it allways is GMT in HTTP responses.
There are probably bugs in the libgcj date parsing classes. I've
noticed some fairly recent Mauve regressions in date parsing. I
haven't had the time to investigate though. I have noticed in the
past that the date parsing code is very tricky. It is hard to avoid
introducing regressions :-(
Tom