[LANG-828] FastDateParser does not handle non-Gregorian calendars properly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.2
• Component/s: lang.time.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 25/Sep/12 16:24
• Updated: 15/Oct/13 02:32
• Resolved: 26/Sep/12 18:04

Description

The following calendars are non-Gregorian [1]:

ja_JP_JP - Japanese Imperial)
th_TH (with any variant) - Thai Buddhist

This causes errors when testing round-trip conversions.

The simplest solution is to fall back to SimpleDateFormat for these calendars.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/calendar.doc.html