RFR: 8324665: Loose matching of space separators in the lenient date/time parsing mode

[Joe Wang]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 20:59:13 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Since the default parsing mode is strict in java.time.format, applications would still have to make code changes when moving existing code to the new JDK releases.
> 
> You are right, Joe. Apps using `java.time` formatters would still need to make changes to their code base. However, the bar is significantly lower. They would have to write some ugly workaround without this fix.

True, indeed what an improvement / enhancement is for.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17678#issuecomment-1924699469