Hi all, As I'm not realistically producing much code at this point, I'm going to check in what I have vs. the source tree on java.text and let Aaron and the rest of you take a look. Essentially this is just SimpleDateFormat and DateFormatSymbols (I was using a locale scheme similar to Aaron's so it shouldn't be tough to switch the package to gnu.java.locale. re:Japhar and ResourceBundles This was working in 0.05 but if I recall correctly Japhar was a little loopy about what you needed to name the files (it would find FILE_en.properties, but not FILE.properties which is what it's supposed to check first). Now in 0.06 it looks like it can find FILE.class and FILE_en.class, but not .properties, in a ResourceBundle.getBundle() call. (maybe this is a problem with Blackdown's 1.1.5v7 implementation of java.util.ResourceBundle and not japhar?) Anyway, I may have more time at some point before/after the initial release but I can't make any promises. I'll commit what I can now and go from there. Wes