[kaffe] Bug report: java.text.SimpleDateFormat#parse

Dalibor Topic robilad at kaffe.org
Sat Jan 29 08:19:44 PST 2005


Ito Kazumitsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [kaffe] Bug report: java.text.SimpleDateFormat#parse"
>     on 05/01/27, Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe.org> writes:
> 
> 
> 
>>Thanks Ito, I've applied your patch, as Andrew applied it to Classpath. 
>>The regression test still fails for me, unfortunately.

> And it can be explained as follows:

Konnichiwa Ito,

Thanks a lot for your kind explanation!

> I should have added
> 
>   calendar.set (Calendar.DST_OFFSET, 0);
> 
> to the part where "GMT+xx:yy" is being parsed, not only just swapping
> Calendar.DST_OFFSET and Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET.

And even more thanks for your patch fixing the problem :) I've merged it 
in from GNU Classpath, and now all tests pass again for me.

> By the way,
> 
> Dates don't match? Thu Oct 28 06:00:27 America/Los_Angeles 2004 != Thu Oct 28 05:00:27 America/Los_Angeles 2004
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> why "America/Los_Angeles" appears instead of "PDT" is explained in
>     http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2005-January/101286.html
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2005-01/msg00200.html

I've added a bug report for that to GNU Classpath bug database, so that 
it doesn't fall to the floor.

cheers,
dalibor topic



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