Name: pa48320 Date: 04/07/2003

The problem occurs only on international jre with the locale set to JAPAN with a Japanese Operating System.

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import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Date;

class japan
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Format formatter;
    Locale locale = Locale.JAPAN;
    TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone ("GMT");

    formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");
    Date epoch = new Date (0);
    String japanOut = formatter.format(epoch);
    DateFormat cdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz");

    // Just double-check to make sure the tests themselves are ok.
    System.out.print(japanOut);
    System.out.print(" ");
    System.out.println(" ");
    System.out.print(locale);
    System.out.println(" ");
  }
}

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