On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> The text for the pattern attribute says "Defaults to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM > AM_or_PM or MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM_or_PM" - which indicates we should be > using a (thread-local) SimpleDateFormat rather than rely on the > standard patterns. Hi Stefan. I agree, we should retain BC if possible, despite Java9's efforts to break it. --DD PS: I've been lurking in the recent JIRA activity regarding this, thank you for your efforts. PPS: How to retain BC (thread-local or not), I'll leave it to you and others :)
