JDK9 changes to Date?

[Jochen Theodorou]

but both examples set a locale I thought

Am 09.07.2015 21:06, schrieb Naoto Sato:
> Hi Jochen,
>
> It is likely that these are caused by the default locale data change to
> CLDR with 8008577.
>
> On 7/9/15 10:12 AM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This seems to be the same issue which has already been reported in 8130845.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> This is expected, as the short date format for UK in CLDR is "dd/MM/y".
>
> Naoto


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