SimpleDateFormat timezone bug on Android

Question

I\'ve been trying to isolate a bug in my application. I succeeded in producing the following \"riddle\":

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Answer 1

This is due to a bug in Android 2.1 (API 7). It seems that Android programmers missed some undocumented Java behavior (which is classified as an unfixable bug itself!) in their implementation of Android 2.1.