org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils.parseDate appears to use
SimpleDateFormat to do its parsing with setLenient(true). This will
result in the acceptance of a date string like "20012007" against a
pattern like "MMddyyyy". This parsing will actually return a date of Fri
Aug 01 00:00:00 PDT 2008.
A suggestion for a future enhancement might be to create an additional
method for DateUtils named parseStrictDate, or something similar, which
applies setLenient(false) to its internal SimpleDateFormat parser.
- Jim
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