als <i>GregorianCalendar</i>.</p><p>So we get the following
converter:</p><div class="Source Java"><pre>package com.thoughtworks.xstream.examples;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Locale;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.Converter;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.MarshallingContext;
import co