Github user justinleet commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/623
Thanks for submitting this, and thanks for being patient. I took a look at
what the method was doing, and it seems like we could probably just cleanup
that method to something like:
```
public static Long convertToEpoch(String m, String d, String ts,
boolean adjust_timezone) throws
ParseException {
String day = StringUtils.leftPad(d.trim(), 2, '0');
int year = Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMMddHH:mm:ss");
if (adjust_timezone) {
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
}
String conglomerated_ts = year + m.trim() + day + ts;
Date date = sdf.parse(conglomerated_ts);
return date.getTime();
}
```
At that point it gets rid of a bunch of the unnecessary `Calendar` stuff
and pushed it to the `DateFormat`. I'm also just generally unsure if this is
the right place to even handle this function. It hardly seems like it's useful
for anything outside of Fireeye, given the formatting (but I don't know that we
want to fix that here). I'm inclined to just leave it here for now to get
things working and clean up as follow-on.
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