diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index ce51d08c9..3c6f46d96 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
+ FastDateFormat does not use the locale specific cache correctly
Simplify FastDateFormat; eliminate boxing
LookupTranslator now works with implementations of CharSequence other than String
ClassUtils.getShortName(String) will now only do a reverse lookup for array types
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastDateParser.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastDateParser.java
index 8fa03289b..b9bb413b5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastDateParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/FastDateParser.java
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ private static ConcurrentMap getCache(final int field) {
*/
private Strategy getLocaleSpecificStrategy(final int field, final Calendar definingCalendar) {
final ConcurrentMap cache = getCache(field);
- Strategy strategy= cache.get(Integer.valueOf(field));
+ Strategy strategy= cache.get(locale);
if(strategy==null) {
strategy= field==Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET
? new TimeZoneStrategy(locale)