Index: /home/oleg/src/apache.org/jakarta-commons/httpclient-trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/util/DateUtil.java =================================================================== --- /home/oleg/src/apache.org/jakarta-commons/httpclient-trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/util/DateUtil.java (revision 180130) +++ /home/oleg/src/apache.org/jakarta-commons/httpclient-trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/util/DateUtil.java (working copy) @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ if (date == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("date is null"); if (pattern == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("pattern is null"); - SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern); + SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, Locale.US); formatter.setTimeZone(GMT); return formatter.format(date); }