| FastDateFormat is a fast and thread-safe version of
java.text.SimpleDateFormat .
This class can be used as a direct replacement to
SimpleDateFormat in most formatting situations.
This class is especially useful in multi-threaded server environments.
SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe in any JDK version,
nor will it be as Sun have closed the bug/RFE.
Only formatting is supported, but all patterns are compatible with
SimpleDateFormat (except time zones - see below).
Java 1.4 introduced a new pattern letter, 'Z', to represent
time zones in RFC822 format (eg. |