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Java's date formatter is not thread safe

As it turns out, Java’s date formatter is not thread safe, it uses internal variables to store the various bits of the date for formatting. My solution was to replace the single instance variable that was being shared with a date formatter factory that would generate an appropriate date formatter. Note that this is only one of many solutions, and not necessarily the most efficient one.