i am try to parse string to date it works normally well but when i am use internationalization with &locate=fr then it will thrown java.lang.IllegalArgumentException.

hear is the peace of code i want to get date from string.

```
public static Date toDate(String date){
    DateTimeFormat format = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM/dd/yy h:mm:s a");
    return format.parseStrict(date);
}

```

and i am try to convert "02/02/2012 10:10:25 AM".

please help me.