2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFInfo.java b/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFInfo.java
index e9833082c..e65e8e3ef 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFInfo.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFInfo.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ package org.apache.fop.pdf;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 
 /**
  * class representing an /Info object
@@ -156,10 +155,8 @@ public class PDFInfo extends PDFObject {
             if (creationDate == null) {
                 creationDate = new Date();
             }
-            final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
-            final String str = sdf.format(creationDate) + "+00'00'";
             bout.write(encode("/CreationDate "));
-            bout.write(encodeString("D:" + str));
+            bout.write(encodeString(formatDateTime(creationDate)));
             bout.write(encode("\n>>\nendobj\n"));
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
             log.error("Ignored I/O exception", ioe);
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFObject.java b/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFObject.java
index 272cd01c7..95047be14 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFObject.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf/PDFObject.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ package org.apache.fop.pdf;
 // Java
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
@@ -221,5 +223,21 @@ public abstract class PDFObject {
             return buf;
         }*/
     }
+    
+    /** Formatting pattern for PDF date */
+    protected static final SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT 
+            = new SimpleDateFormat("'D:'yyyyMMddHHmmssZ");
+
+    /**
+     * Formats a date/time according to the PDF specification 
+     * (D:YYYYMMDDHHmmSSOHH'mm').
+     * @param time date/time value to format
+     * @return the requested String representation
+     */
+    protected String formatDateTime(Date time) {
+        String s = DATE_FORMAT.format(time);
+        int i = s.length() - 2;
+        return s.substring(0, i) + "'" + s.substring(i) + "'";
+    }
 
 }