SimpleDateFormat parse bug: doesn't like embedded spaces

[Bryce McKinlay]

Scott Gilbertson wrote:
> I found a difference between SimpleDateFormat.parse in GCJ/Classpath vs.
> Sun.  Tiny test program attached.
>
> The attached program runs the following strings:
>     "2:03:34"
>     "2: 3:34"
>
> Through this SimpleDateFormat:
>     new SimpleDateFormat ("H':'m':'s")
>
> The result with GCJ (from svn a Jan 24) is different from Sun JRE 1.4.2_08\
>   

Hmm, another undocumented behaviour of Sun's class libraries. The 
attached patch should make us compatible. We'll need to add a mauve test 
for this, too.

Bryce

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