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Sebb resolved LANG-367.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Sorry, was misreading the usage of SimpleDataFormat.

The class is only instantiated to obtain its pattern as a String - so there is 
no sharing of SDF instances.

The remarks about sharing SDF instances are wrong.

> FastDateFormat thread safety
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>
>                 Key: LANG-367
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-367
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sebb
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>         Attachments: FastDateFormat.patch
>
>
> FastDateFormat has several static HashMaps. These are currently not final, so 
> there is no guarantee that they will be visible to all threads.
> Patch to follow.
> Also, as far as I can make out, the class shares SimpleDateFormat instances 
> between threads.
> It does not document why this is OK.
> I'm guessing that it assumes that instances of the SimpleDateFormat class are 
> thread-safe provided that they have the same attributes, but this is not 
> documented. If this is the case, it's not clear that it is a valid assumption.

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