Github user garydgregory commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/296#discussion_r143804862 --- Diff: src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastTimeZone.java --- @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ +package org.apache.commons.lang3.time; + +import java.util.TimeZone; +import java.util.regex.Matcher; +import java.util.regex.Pattern; + +/** + * Faster methods to produce custom time zones. + * + * @since 3.7 + */ +public class FastTimeZone { + + private static final TimeZone GREENWICH = new GmtTimeZone(false, 0, 0); + + // do not instantiate + private FastTimeZone() { + } + + /** + * Get the GMT TimeZone. + * @return A TimeZone with a raw offset of zero. + */ + public static TimeZone getGmtTimeZone() { + return GREENWICH; + } + + /** + * Get a TimeZone, looking first for GMT custom ids, then falling back to Olson ids. --- End diff -- In future patches, you can use the active voice for Javadocs: "Gets a TimeZone..." instead of "Get...". :-)
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