protected final DateFormat _dateFormat() {
if (_dateFormat != null) {
return _dateFormat;
}
/* At this point, all timezone configuration should have occured, with respect
* to default dateformat configuration. But we still better clone
* an instance as formatters are stateful, not thread-safe.
*/
DateFormat df = _config.getDateFormat();
_dateFormat = df = (DateFormat) df.clone();
// [databind#939]: 26-Sep-2015, tatu: With 2.6, formatter has been (pre)configured
// with TimeZone, so we should NOT try overriding it unlike with earlier versions
/*
TimeZone tz = getTimeZone();
if (tz != df.getTimeZone()) {
df.setTimeZone(tz);
}
*/
return df;
}
