Github user alasdairhodge commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/682#issuecomment-109934408
Actually, I'm inclined to agree with @sjcorbett. Better to mandate a
standard format (ISO8601 is the obvious choice) and pull in a mature
implementation such as joda-time or Apache commons DateUtils.
Core Java has been moving in the right direction: Java 7's SimpleDateFormat
supports ISO8601, and Java 8 includes the new java.time API (heavily influenced
by joda-time).
Lots of discussions on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2201925/converting-iso-8601-compliant-string-to-java-util-date
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