JDK9 changes to Date?

[Jochen Theodorou]

Hi,

after fixing some JDK9 related bugs in our build for Groovy we stumbled 
over

new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", 
Locale.US).parse("Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 CET 1970")

failing to parse with

> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 CET 1970"
>     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:366)

This happens not with my local machine using jdk1.9.0-ea-b68, but it 
does fail on our CI server used revision 0906b79c9df4 for this.

A second case is this one:

>         Locale locale = Locale.UK
>         Locale.setDefault locale
>         TimeZone.setDefault TimeZone.getTimeZone('Etc/GMT')
>         Date d = new Date(0)
>         assertEquals '01/01/70', DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(d);

the assert used to work, but now the format changed to print 01/01/1970 
instead of 01/01/70. With the same constellation regarding jdk versions.

Are those expected to fail? Can someone verify this?

bye Jochen Theodorou

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