basho/riak-java-client — pull request #159 by pcl (2012-08-29 16:57:40+00:00)
Title: Date speedup

Apache httpclient 4.1.x uses { RFC1036, RFC1123, ASCTIME }, and uses java.text.SimpleDateFormat#parse(String), which raises an exception on failure. Since the Riak server uses RFC1123, this ordering is faster -- we avoid the creation of a ParseException during the failed RFC1036 parse.

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1227 for details.