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Working around a Joda Time bug in PeriodFormat?

Here is my code that shows the Joda Time error:

import org.joda.time.Period;
import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormatter;

import java.util.Locale;

public class ScratchSpace {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Locale.setDefault(Locale.GERMAN);
        final PeriodFormatter periodFormatter = 
                 PeriodFormat.wordBased(Locale.ENGLISH);
        final Period period = new Period(6, 5, 4, 3);
        final String s = period.toString(periodFormatter);
        // i'm expecting english to be outputted
        System.out.println("s = " + s); // outputs german: 6 Stunden, 5 Minuten, 4 Sekunden und 3 Millisekunden
    }

}

According to JavaDocs, I have to get a period formatted in English. But instead, the current default standard is used, which in the example above is German.

I use Joda Time 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.7, and my preferred language is Australian English.

Can anyone offer any simple job?

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, :

final PeriodFormatter periodFormatter = 
             PeriodFormat.wordBased(new Locale(""));

PeriodFormat . , JavaDocs for PeriodFormat.getDefault() :

Gets the default formatter that outputs words in English.
 This calls {@link #wordBased(Locale)} using a locale of {@code ENGLISH}.

, , :

final PeriodFormatter periodFormatter = PeriodFormat.getDefault();
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