[PDFBOX-643] Date conversion errors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0-incubator, 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Arjohn Kampman
• Created: 01/Mar/10 19:58
• Updated: 26/Apr/10 05:56
• Resolved: 03/Mar/10 19:49

Description

I've collected the various "Error converting date" errors from our logs and categorized them. I have found four date patterns that seem to occur frequently:

Acrobat Distiller 1.0.2 for Macintosh:
Fri, Apr 10, 1998

ECMP5:
Wednesday January 3, 2001 10:02:13

GNU Ghostscript 7.0.7:
Thu Feb 5 23:23:54 UTC 2009

Acrobat Net Distiller 1.0 for Windows
Monday, May 16, 1994 at 3:39PM

A patch to add support for these formats is attached.

Issue Links

• is part of: PDFBOX-465 invalid date formats
• is part of: PDFBOX-164 Error converting Date with LucenePDFDocument
• is part of: PDFBOX-170 Another converting date error with LucenePDFDocument
• is related to: PDFBOX-402 Bug when using PDF Box in a threaded environment.