[jira] [Created] (LANG-916) CLONE - DateFormatUtils.format does not correctly change Calendar TimeZone in certain situations

["Christian P. MOMON (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Christian P. MOMON created LANG-916:
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             Summary: CLONE - DateFormatUtils.format does not correctly change Calendar TimeZone in certain situations
                 Key: LANG-916
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-916
             Project: Commons Lang
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: lang.time.*
    Affects Versions: 2.4
         Environment: Sun JDK6, RHEL 5.3
            Reporter: Christian P. MOMON
             Fix For: 2.5


If a Calendar object is constructed in certain ways a call to Calendar.setTimeZone does not correctly change the Calendars fields.  Calling Calenar.getTime() seems to fix this problem.  While this is probably a bug in the JDK, it would be nice if DateFormatUtils was smart enough to detect/resolve this problem.

For example, the following unit test fails:

{noformat}
  public void testFormat_CalendarIsoMsZulu() {
    final String dateTime = "2009-10-16T16:42:16.000Z";

    // more commonly constructed with: cal = new GregorianCalendar(2009, 9, 16, 8, 42, 16)
    // for the unit test to work in any time zone, constructing with GMT-8 rather than default locale time zone
    GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-8"));
    cal.clear();
    cal.set(2009, 9, 16, 8, 42, 16);


    FastDateFormat format = FastDateFormat.getInstance("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    assertEquals("dateTime", dateTime, format.format(cal));
  }
{noformat}

However, this unit test passes:

{noformat}
  public void testFormat_CalendarIsoMsZulu() {
    final String dateTime = "2009-10-16T16:42:16.000Z";
    GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-8"));
    cal.clear();
    cal.set(2009, 9, 16, 8, 42, 16);
    cal.getTime();

    FastDateFormat format = FastDateFormat.getInstance("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    assertEquals("dateTime", dateTime, format.format(cal));
  }
{noformat}

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