# ADR-0009 - Use American English

## Date

2025-11-24

## Context

Gradle is an international open-source project with contributors from around the world. English is the primary language for code, comments, documentation, and communication, but there are variations in English spelling and terminology, specifically American English vs. British English.

Inconsistency in spelling conventions can lead to several issues:

        Handler.StorageURLConnection conn = (Handler.StorageURLConnection) handler.openConnection(url);

        // Both should return the same value
        long date = conn.getDate();
        long lastModified = conn.getLastModified();
        assertEquals(lastModified, date);
    }

    /**
     * Helper method to get private field value using reflection.
     * Searches the class hierarchy to find the field.
     */

    "action": "s3:ListBucket",
    "bucket": "test",
    "conditions": {
      "Authorization": [
        "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=minio/20220507/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date, Signature=62012db6c47d697620cf6c68f0f45f6e34894589a53ab1faf6dc94338468c78a"
      ],
      "CurrentTime": [
        "2022-05-07T18:31:41Z"
      ],
      "Delimiter": [
        "/"
      ],
      "EpochTime": [

## Date

2012-12-01

## Context

In Gradle we often need to serialize in-memory objects for caching, or to transmit them across process barriers, etc.
Java serialization is one way to implement this, however, despite its simplicity of implementation, it has several drawbacks:

- **Performance:**
Java's built-in serialization mechanism is often slower compared to other serialization solutions.

				Content:  []byte("foo \r\n"),
				Modified: time.Date(2011, 12, 8, 10, 4, 50, 0, time.UTC),
				Mode:     0666,
			},
			{
				Name:     "dir/empty/",
				Content:  []byte{},
				Modified: time.Date(2011, 12, 8, 10, 8, 6, 0, time.UTC),
				Mode:     fs.ModeDir | 0777,
			},
			{
				Name:     "readonly",
				Content:  []byte("important \r\n"),
				Modified: time.Date(2011, 12, 8, 10, 6, 8, 0, time.UTC),

import static org.mockito.Mockito.doAnswer;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;

     * @throws XmlPullParserException XmlPullParserException if
     * any.
     * @return Date
     */
    private java.util.Date getDateValue(String s, String attribute, XmlPullParser parser)
            throws XmlPullParserException {
        return getDateValue(s, attribute, null, parser);
    } // -- java.util.Date getDateValue( String, String, XmlPullParser )

    /**
     * Method getDateValue.
     *

            final Date date = toDate(str, format);
            if (date != null) {
                return date;
            }
        }
        final Date date = toDate(str, locale);
        if (date != null) {
            return date;
        }
        final java.sql.Date sqlDate = toSqlDateJdbcEscape(str);
        if (sqlDate != null) {

        final Date date = toDate("10/9/7");
        assertThat(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd").format(date), is("2010/09/07"));
    }

    /**
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void testToDate_MediumStyle() throws Exception {
        final Date date = toDate("2010/9/7");
        assertThat(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd").format(date), is("2010/09/07"));
    }

    /**

		},
		{ // Expiration with invalid date
			inputXML: ` <Expiration>
                                    <Date>invalid date</Date>
                                    </Expiration>`,
			expectedErr: errLifecycleInvalidDate,
		},
		{ // Expiration with both number of days nor a date
			inputXML: `<Expiration>
		                    <Date>2019-04-20T00:01:00Z</Date>
		                    </Expiration>`,