Hi, This is a request to backport a JDK 8 fix into 7u4. 7130335: Problem with timezone in a SimpleDateFormat http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7130335 webrev: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/7aa5ddfa3c9d Thanks, Masayoshi