serialize/deserialize subtracts 1 day from Joda-Time LocalDate instances.

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final LocalDate ld0 = new LocalDate(2008, 07, 03);
final XStream xs = new XStream();
final String xml0 = xs.toXML(ld0);
final LocalDate ld1 = (LocalDate) xs.fromXML(xml0);
final String xml1 = xs.toXML(ld1);
final LocalDate ld2 = (LocalDate) xs.fromXML(xml1);

LocalDate ld1s = null;
LocalDate ld2s = null;
try

{ ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos); oos.writeObject(ld0); oos.close(); ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())); ld1s = (LocalDate)ois.readObject(); ois.close(); baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos); oos.writeObject(ld1s); oos.close(); ois = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())); ld2s = (LocalDate)ois.readObject(); ois.close(); }

catch (Exception e)

{ // nothing }

System.out.println(ld0.toString() + '\n' + xml0 + '\n'
+ ld1 + " (" + ld1s + ")\n" + xml1 + '\n'
+ ld2 + " (" + ld2s + ")\n");
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For me it prints:

2008-07-03
<org.joda.time.LocalDate>
<iLocalMillis>1215043200000</iLocalMillis>
<iChronology class="org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology"
resolves-to="org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology$Stub" serialization="custom">
<org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology_-Stub>
<org.joda.time.tz.FixedDateTimeZone
resolves-to="org.joda.time.DateTimeZone$Stub"/>
</org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology_-Stub>
</iChronology>
</org.joda.time.LocalDate>
2008-07-02 (2008-07-03)
<org.joda.time.LocalDate>
<iLocalMillis>1215043200000</iLocalMillis>
<iChronology class="org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology"
resolves-to="org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology$Stub" serialization="custom">
<org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology_-Stub>
<org.joda.time.tz.CachedDateTimeZone
resolves-to="org.joda.time.DateTimeZone$Stub" serialization="custom">
<org.joda.time.DateTimeZone_-Stub>
<string>Europe/Berlin</string>
</org.joda.time.DateTimeZone_-Stub>
</org.joda.time.tz.CachedDateTimeZone>
</org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology_-Stub>
</iChronology>
</org.joda.time.LocalDate>
2008-07-02 (2008-07-03)