Github user srowen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/179#issuecomment-38116957
@pwendell the thread-safety problem would manifest as just returning the
wrong parsed or formatted date. The objects use instance fields as part of
these processes. Have a look at `SimpleDateFormat.formatImpl` for example.
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