From c1991241e43d156415e04e9103fce0a76c46a1a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zzz <zzz@mail.i2p>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:12:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Time: Fix crashes on old Androids (ticket #1976)

---
 core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java b/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
index be47ce7a1c..7f126ed562 100644
--- a/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
+++ b/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ public class BuildTime {
     private static final long _latestTime;
     private static final long YEARS_25 = 25L*365*24*60*60*1000;
     /** update this periodically */
-    private static final String EARLIEST = "2016-02-19 12:00:00 UTC";
+    private static final String EARLIEST = "2017-03-27 12:00:00 UTC";
+    // fallback if parse fails ticket #1976
+    // date -d 201x-xx-xx +%s
+    private static final long EARLIEST_LONG = 1490587200 * 1000L;
 
     static {
         // this is the standard format of build.timestamp as set in the top-level build.xml
@@ -45,12 +48,15 @@ public class BuildTime {
         try {
             Date date = fmt.parse(EARLIEST);
             if (date == null)
-                throw new RuntimeException("BuildTime FAIL");
-            min = date.getTime();
+                min = EARLIEST_LONG;
+            else
+                min = date.getTime();
         } catch (ParseException pe) {
             System.out.println("BuildTime FAIL");
-            pe.printStackTrace();
-            throw new RuntimeException("BuildTime FAIL", pe);
+            // Old Android, ticket #1976
+            //pe.printStackTrace();
+            //throw new RuntimeException("BuildTime FAIL", pe);
+            min = EARLIEST_LONG;
         }
         long max = min + YEARS_25;
         long build = getBuildTime(fmt, "i2p.jar");