The SimpleDateFormat incident

I think that a java developer with more than 2 years experience must be able to answer to the question "How do you parse a date".

For me someone whose answer to this question does not contain the word simpleDateFormat did never really work ( or maybe has really a very bad memory ! ).

But each time I say it, there is at least one (2 years or much more) developer that appears to have no idea about what I'm saying.

Is everybody playing with frameworks instead of coding ?