Help needed agently. I am using SimpleDate format to get my date and it has been working, Now all of a surden it gices a resource not found. am compleely lost. this is the code

public static String timeNow()
{
// Format the current time.
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat ("dd.MMM.yyyy HH:mm:ss ");
Date currentTime = new Date();
return formatter.format(currentTime);
}

and this is the stacktrace.
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.RuntimeException.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.util.MissingResourceException.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(Compiled Code)
at java.text.DateFormatSymbols.initializeData(Compiled Code)
at java.text.DateFormatSymbols.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(Compiled Code)
at za.co.sbic.system.EventLog.timeNow(Compiled Code

Strage thing is someother program is using the same call and it works.