Github user srowen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1683#issuecomment-50731387 I looked this up just to confirm that it is a behavior change between Java 6 and 7, and indeed 6 was stricter: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/Timestamp.html#valueOf(java.lang.String) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/sql/Timestamp.html#valueOf(java.lang.String) +1
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