From: Jim Procter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:06:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: JAL-1448 reinstate non-locale sensitive code for reading/writing last read date from... 
X-Git-Tag: Jalview_2_9~205^2
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32bca9b301bdd04464e2da41d867f66c4d38a63d;p=jalview.git

JAL-1448 reinstate non-locale sensitive code for reading/writing last read date from RSS and Jalview preferences
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diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java b/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
index 2dfeb51..b07593d 100755
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
  */
 package jalview.bin;
 
-import jalview.util.MessageManager;
 import jalview.ws.dbsources.das.api.DasSourceRegistryI;
 import jalview.ws.dbsources.das.datamodel.DasSourceRegistry;
 
 import java.awt.Color;
 import java.io.*;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.*;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.*;
@@ -781,7 +781,8 @@ public class Cache
     setProperty(property, jalview.util.Format.getHexString(colour));
   }
 
-  public static final DateFormat date_format = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG,MessageManager.getLocale());
+  public static final DateFormat date_format = SimpleDateFormat
+          .getDateTimeInstance();
 
   /**
    * store a date in a jalview property
diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java b/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
index da92179..8326e35 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/BlogReader.java
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ public class BlogReader extends JPanel
     java.util.Date earliest = null;
     try
     {
-      earliest = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DD",MessageManager.getLocale()).parse(chan
+      earliest = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DD").parse(chan
               .getHTTPLastModified());
     } catch (Exception x)
     {