Strange NPE in Calendar.setTime() when creating IssueXMLView

2007-03-08 18:51:17,889 resin-tcp-connection-j2ee.support.atlassian.com:6802-21 ERROR [com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager] MethodInvocationException occurred getting message body from Velocity: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1032)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:785)
        at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:778)
        at javax.mail.internet.MailDateFormat.format(MailDateFormat.java:133)
        at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:314)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.util.OutlookDate.formatRss(OutlookDate.java:108)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor68.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:267)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:197)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:175)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:220)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:230)
        at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:256)
        at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:450)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:76)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:60)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:55)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.getHtml(JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.java:90)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.customfield.CustomFieldTypeModuleDescriptor.getViewXML(CustomFieldTypeModuleDescriptor.java:154)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.IssueXMLView.getCustomFieldXML(IssueXMLView.java:126)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor67.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:267)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:197)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:175)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:220)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:55)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:70)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:55)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach.render(Foreach.java:166)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:114)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:55)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:70)
        at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:230)
        at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:256)
        at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:450)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:76)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:60)
        at com.atlassian.velocity.DefaultVelocityManager.getEncodedBody(DefaultVelocityManager.java:55)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.getHtml(JiraResourcedModuleDescriptor.java:90)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.IssueXMLView.getBody(IssueXMLView.java:91)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.SearchRequestXMLView$1.writeIssue(SearchRequestXMLView.java:63)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.util.SearchRequestViewBodyWriterUtil$1.writeIssue(SearchRequestViewBodyWriterUtil.java:57)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.util.IssueWriterHitCollector.collect(IssueWriterHitCollector.java:30)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.searchAndSort(LuceneSearchProvider.java:120)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.util.SearchRequestViewBodyWriterUtil.writeBody(SearchRequestViewBodyWriterUtil.java:61)
        at com.atlassian.jira.issue.views.SearchRequestXMLView.writeSearchResults(SearchRequestXMLView.java:67)
        at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.searchrequestview.SearchRequestURLHandler.handleRequest(SearchRequestURLHandler.java:219)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.servlet.SearchRequestViewServlet.doGet(SearchRequestViewServlet.java:26)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:115)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:92)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletFilterChain.doFilter(ServletFilterChain.java:106)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.AccessLogFilter.doFilter(AccessLogFilter.java:51)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:182)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:181)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(ProfilingFilter.java:132)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.JIRAProfilingFilter.doFilter(JIRAProfilingFilter.java:16)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ActionCleanupDelayFilter.doFilter(ActionCleanupDelayFilter.java:41)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.RequestCleanupFilter.doFilter(RequestCleanupFilter.java:49)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:37)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.atlassian.jira.appconsistency.db.DatabaseCompatibilityEnforcerFilter.doFilter(DatabaseCompatibilityEnforcerFilter.java:39)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.FilterFilterChain.doFilter(FilterFilterChain.java:70)
        at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:178)
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service(ServletInvocation.java:229)
        at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(HmuxRequest.java:419)
        at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:389)
        at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.java:507)
        at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:433)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)