Name: jl125535			Date: 07/23/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :

SimpleDateFormat does not support parsing strings such as:

  "Saturday, 1st of March"

As there is no format character to denote the "st", "nd", "rd", or "th" suffix that may be applied to a day of month.

JUSTIFICATION :

This is a common way of writing dates.
(Incident Review ID: 241910) 
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