NPE when trying to print demo applet Clock

Build : 61 (jdk1.4)
os : Solaris2.6
App : Clock (in the demo/applet/Clock dir of the build)

When executing Print with demo/applet/clock using the Appletviewer get an NPE.
Fails to print under 2.6, win2000 for the above build.

Tested on the following os platforms of the previous builds mentioned below and the same NPE is thrown ..

Build os(platform)

60 Win2000, WinNT,Win98
59 Win2000

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:903)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:417)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:407)
        at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:309)
        at Clock.paint(Clock.java:136)
        at java.awt.Component.print(Component.java:2424)
        at java.awt.Container.print(Container.java:1132)
        at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.print(MComponentPeer.java:309)
        at sun.awt.motif.MPanelPeer.print(MPanelPeer.java:41)
        at java.awt.GraphicsCallback$PeerPrintCallback.run(GraphicsCallback.java:88)
        at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runOneComponent(SunGraphicsCallback.java:63)
        at java.awt.Component.printAll(Component.java:2440)
        at sun.applet.AppletViewer.appletPrint(AppletViewer.java:702)
        at sun.applet.AppletViewer.processUserAction(AppletViewer.java:848)
        at sun.applet.AppletViewer$UserActionListener.actionPerformed(AppletViewer.java:131)
        at java.awt.MenuItem.processActionEvent(MenuItem.java:581)
        at java.awt.MenuItem.processEvent(MenuItem.java:545)
        at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:282)
        at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:272)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:441)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:136)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:99)