The SimpleDateFormatter defined in variable dateFormatRFC822 in https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/blob/master/jaxrs/resteasy-jaxrs/src/main/java/org/jboss/resteasy/specimpl/ResponseBuilderImpl.java#L300 uses a default system locale.

This was causing problems on my machine as my locale is cs_CZ and the Expires header contained dates like Čt, 06 VI 2013 19:24:02 CEST

It would be nice if users could specify locale for this formatter via .language(). Right now the only possible way to force the response builder to generate the dates in some locale is via .header("Expires", <user_defined_date_formatter's date>). I.e. not using .expires() method.