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BTW: the DateRenderer you announced recently implicitly relies on<br>
the fact that DateFormat.get...Instance(style) does _not_ return the same<br>
object for the same style. If it would (which we cannot control and<br>
which could change with any jdk update), calling f.format(d) would<br>
not be thread safe as DateFormat ist not thread safe.<br>
synchronized(f) {return f.format(d);}<br>
would therefore be safer.<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div>While your point is valid that update would break a lot more than just ST.<br></div></div>