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  2. JRASERVER-16371

When running JIRA on IBM JVM using a german locale, the short dates for the months are different to running on Sun JVM

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      When running JIRA on IBM J9 VM using a german locale, the short dates for the months are different.

      In particular the short date for march on Sun JVM is Mrz and this is the same as the Javascript date picker. However on IBM J9 VM the short format is Mär. This leads to a situation where the Javascript date picker will put in the wrong value (Mrz) when running on an IBM JVM (which expects Mär).

      The following java program illustrates the differences. 

      import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class Test {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy", Locale.GERMAN);
		//works on sun
		try {	
			df.parse("09-Mrz-2008");
			System.out.println("Parsed 09-Mrz-2008 successfully");
		}catch(Exception e) {

			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		//works on IBM
		try {   
			df.parse("09-Mär-2008");
			System.out.println("Parsed 09-Mär-2008 successfully");
		}catch(Exception e) {
		
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}
}

      Output on Sun/ Apple JVM

      [amyers@erdinger:~]$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_16"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-284)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-133, mixed mode, sharing)
[amyers@erdinger:atlassian-jira-enterprise-3.13.1-standalone]$ java Test
Parsed 09-Mrz-2008 successfully
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09-Mär-2008"
	at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
	at Test.main(Test.java:20)

      Output on IBM JVM

      [was@centos5was bin]$ ./java -version
java version "1.5.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pxi32dev-20060511 (SR2))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux x86-32 j9vmxi3223-20060504 (JIT enabled)
J9VM - 20060501_06428_lHdSMR
JIT  - 20060428_1800_r8
GC   - 20060501_AA)
JCL  - 20060511a
[was@centos5was bin]$ ./java Test
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09-Mrz-2008"
	at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:352)
	at Test.main(Test.java:11)
Parsed 09-Mär-2008 successfully

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              andrew.myers Andrew Myers [Atlassian]
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