https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54459

--- Comment #1 from Sebb <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)

> - the code does not check that the format actually works.

Not strictly true: it does check that the format parses the timestamp.
However, the created DateFormat instance is lenient, and may match only part of
the timestamp string. 

For example, MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss happily matches 2013/01/19 20:55:07 but parses
it as 1 Sep 2186 19:55:07 GMT.

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