Index: src/test/verifiers/xpp3/expected.xml
===================================================================
--- src/test/verifiers/xpp3/expected.xml	(r‚vision 607)
+++ src/test/verifiers/xpp3/expected.xml	(copie de travail)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <l>3</l>
     <f>4.5</f>
     <d>5.6</d>
-    <date>Friday, 6 January 2006 12:00:00 AM EST</date>
+    <date>Friday, January 6, 2006 12:00:00 AM EST</date>
   </typeTester>
   <name>Maven</name>
   <component>
Index: src/test/verifiers/xpp3/Xpp3Verifier.java
===================================================================
--- src/test/verifiers/xpp3/Xpp3Verifier.java	(r‚vision 607)
+++ src/test/verifiers/xpp3/Xpp3Verifier.java	(copie de travail)
@@ -43,8 +43,12 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
 
 /**
  * @author <a href="mailto:trygvis@inamo.no">Trygve Laugst&oslash;l</a>
@@ -59,6 +63,8 @@
     public void verify()
         throws IOException, XmlPullParserException
     {
+        TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));
+
         verifyWriter();
 
         verifyReader();
@@ -216,6 +222,7 @@
         {
             throw new XmlPullParserException( "Couldn't set date: " + e.getMessage() );
         }
+
         expected.setTypeTester( typeTester );
 
         Repository repository = new Repository();
@@ -293,6 +300,32 @@
         Model actual = reader.read( new StringReader( xml ) );
 
         assertModel( expected, actual );
+
+        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Test that dates are correctly read back from xml
+        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        StringBuffer dateXml = new StringBuffer();
+        dateXml.append("<mavenModel>\n<typeTester>\n");
+        dateXml.append("<date>Friday, January 6, 2006 12:00:00 AM EST</date>\n");
+        dateXml.append("</typeTester>\n</mavenModel>");
+
+        expected = new Model();
+
+        TypeTester typeTester = new TypeTester();
+
+        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
+
+        calendar.clear();
+        calendar.set(2006,01,06,12,0);
+
+        typeTester.setDate(calendar.getTime());
+
+        expected.setTypeTester(typeTester);
+
+        actual = reader.read( new StringReader( dateXml.toString() ) );
+
+        assertModel( expected, actual );
     }
 
     public void verifyReaderAliases()
Index: src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3ReaderGenerator.java
===================================================================
--- src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3ReaderGenerator.java	(r‚vision 607)
+++ src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3ReaderGenerator.java	(copie de travail)
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@
 
         jClass.addImport( "java.util.regex.Pattern" );
 
+        jClass.addImport( "java.util.Locale" );
+
         addModelImports( jClass, null );
 
         // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1380,7 +1382,7 @@
 
         sc.indent();
 
-        sc.add( "DateFormat dateParser = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL );" );
+        sc.add( "DateFormat dateParser = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL , Locale.US );" );
 
         sc.add( "dateParser.setLenient( true );" );
 
Index: src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3WriterGenerator.java
===================================================================
--- src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3WriterGenerator.java	(r‚vision 607)
+++ src/main/java/org/codehaus/modello/plugin/xpp3/Xpp3WriterGenerator.java	(copie de travail)
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@
 
         jClass.addImport( "java.util.Iterator" );
 
+        jClass.addImport( "java.util.Locale" );
+
         jClass.addField( new JField( new JClass( "org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlSerializer" ), "serializer" ) );
 
         jClass.addField( new JField( new JClass( "String" ), "NAMESPACE" ) );
@@ -464,7 +466,7 @@
         if ( "Date".equals( type ) )
         {
             textValue =
-                "DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL ).format( " + textValue + " )";
+                "DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL , Locale.US ).format( " + textValue + " )";
         }
         else if ( !"String".equals( type ) )
         {
@@ -472,6 +474,7 @@
         }
 
         return textValue;
+
     }
 
     private String getValueChecker( String type, String value, ModelField field )