In ja locale, If I pass a valid date string, e.q. "Wed Jul 1 12:15:23 1988", through the following codes, the ruturn Date object d from the parse method is always a null.

This only happens in ja locale. en locale is fine with it.

This bug is reported to JDK 1.1.4.

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  SimpleDateFormat formatter =
  new SimpleDateFormat ("EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy");

  Date d = (Date) formatter.parse(dateString.trim(), new ParsePosition(0));

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