question: parses dates supplied in accordance with section 3.3.1 of rfc 2616 concode_field_sep SimpleDateFormat httpDateFormat concode_elem_sep long serialVersionUID concode_field_sep String formatHttpDate
target: Date function ( String arg0 ) { try { return httpDateFormat . parse ( arg0 ) ; } catch ( ParseException loc0 ) { LoggerFactory . getLogger ( getClass ( ) ) . debug ( "srini_string" , arg0 ) ; return new Date ( 0 ) ; } }