title: Thread-safe Date Parser
body: <p>I'm looking for a thread-safe replacement for <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>SimpleDateFormat</code></a>. <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/time/FastDateFormat.html#parseObject(java.lang.String,%20java.text.ParsePosition)" rel="noreferrer"><code>parseObject</code></a> on good old <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/time/FastDateFormat.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>FastDateFormat</code></a> isn't implemented and just throws an error. Any ideas? I don't need anything fancy, just thread-safety and the ability to handle this pattern: <code>"yyyy-MM-dd"</code>.</p>