Bug 17256 Exception due to bug 17208
bundles/org.eclipse.core.databinding/src/org/eclipse/core/databinding/conversion/DateConversionSupport.java
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005 db4objects Inc.  http://www.db4o.com
 * 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     db4objects - Initial API and implementation
 */
package org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion;
import com.ibm.icu.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import com.ibm.icu.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
/**
 * Base support for date/string conversion handling according to the
 * default locale or in plain long milliseconds.
 * 
 * NOTE: parse(format(date)) will generally *not* be equal to date, since the
 * string representation may not cover the sub-second range, time-only string
 * representations will be counted from the beginning of the era, etc.
 */
public abstract class DateConversionSupport {