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Felix Müller commented on LANG-462:
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Well, that would of course solve the problem. And I would appreciate this.

Nevertheless, I would like to understand the problem with JDK 5 and the Pattern.compile call. Just for my own sake. :-)
                
> FastDateFormat supports parse
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-462
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-462
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: lang.time.*
>            Reporter: Franz Wong
>             Fix For: 3.2
>
>         Attachments: DateParser.patch, LANG-462-FormatCache.patch, LANG-462-Hen.patch, LANG-462_buildfix.patch, LANG-462_buildfix_pending_java6_issues.patch, UseFormatCache.patch, lang462.patch, with_interfaces.patch, with_interfaces2.patch, with_updated_tests.patch
>
>
> Currently FastDateFormat only supports formatting the ISO8601 time zone, however, it doesn't support parsing such string to Date.

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