[LANG-996] FastDateFormat is case sensitive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.4
• Component/s: lang.time.*
• Assignee: Charles Honton
• Reporter: David Rees
• Created: 11/Apr/14 13:45
• Updated: 06/Apr/15 17:28
• Resolved: 23/Apr/14 16:05

Description

It seems that FastDateFormat is case sensitive. But it claims to be mostly compatible with SimpleDateFormat which is not.

For example, this throws a ParseException:

FastDateFormat.getInstance("dd-MMM-yyyy").parse("01-jan-2000");

But these do not:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
sdf.parse("01-jan-2000");
DateUtils.parse("01-jan-2000", "dd-MMM-yyyy");