[threeten-dev] DateTimeFormatters - pattern Z and X and SimpleDateFormat

[Masayoshi Okutsu]

On 12/21/2012 10:08 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> On 19 December 2012 05:42,  <yoshito_umaoka at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> - Pattern 'Z' and 'X' are extended. Can we simply extend the definition of
>> SimpleDateFormat to support them? Of course, it will be an incompatible
>> change, but the impact would be pretty minor.
> Its not up to me to control SimpleDateFormat. There would be some
> logic to them being the same.

It's always a problem that there's no way to predict the impact of an 
incompatible change. If it's known that there's a minor compatibility 
impact, probably the incompatible change shouldn't be made.

Masayoshi