[CAY-792] Date has issues with different locales when using XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0M1
• Component/s: Core Library
• Environment: Problem was discovered when trying to encode data on a Linux machine and reading back on Windows with different locales.
• Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
• Reporter: Adrian Wiesmann
• Created: 23/May/07 08:50
• Updated: 09/Nov/08 01:14
• Resolved: 25/May/07 09:27

Description

Date objects get encoded in this format when using the XMLEncoder (date.toString()):

"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy"

which results in issues when trying to read back with the XMLDecoder under different locales. Even when using SimpleDateFormat with correct format string.

I applied a patch which encodes/decodes dates in this format:

"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss zzz"

which works better with different locales.