#### Shared reader thread

We can't rely on application threads to read data from the socket. Application threads are transient: sometimes they're reading and writing and sometimes they're off doing application-layer things. But the socket is permanent, and it needs constant attention: we dispatch all incoming frames so the connection is good-to-go when the application layer needs it.

        // that. If any of the BROWSER_COMPATIBLE_DATE_FORMAT_STRINGS ended in "'GMT'" we'd have
        // to also check that position.getIndex() == value.length() otherwise parsing might have
        // terminated early, ignoring things like "+01:00". Leaving this as != 0 means that any
        // trailing junk is ignored.
        return result
      }
    }
  }
  return null
}

/** Returns the string for this date. */