A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Possible JAVA 8 bug while parsing dates using pattern with dot after short month (like dd MMM.yyyy) for several months (not all of them) in russian locale.



EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Date should be parsed
ACTUAL -
    Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "28 дек.2018"
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:366)
     at Main.main(Main.java:12)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
     at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)


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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Locale;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {

        Locale locale = new Locale("ru");

        SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM.yyyy", locale);
        Object date = simpleDateFormat.parse("28 дек.2018");
        System.out.println(date);
    }
}

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