diff --git a/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFDataStream.java b/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFDataStream.java
index ce877a970e8..ae59bd84be3 100644
--- a/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFDataStream.java
+++ b/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFDataStream.java
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
  */
 abstract class TTFDataStream implements Closeable
 {
+    private static final TimeZone TIMEZONE_UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
+
     TTFDataStream()
     {
     }
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ public short readSignedShort() throws IOException
     public Calendar readInternationalDate() throws IOException
     {
         long secondsSince1904 = readLong();
-        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
+        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TIMEZONE_UTC);
         cal.set(1904, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0);
         cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
         long millisFor1904 = cal.getTimeInMillis();
diff --git a/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFSubsetter.java b/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFSubsetter.java
index f4bb96a5000..52ce8f36563 100755
--- a/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFSubsetter.java
+++ b/fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/ttf/TTFSubsetter.java
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ public final class TTFSubsetter
     
     private static final byte[] PAD_BUF = new byte[] { 0, 0, 0 };
 
+    private static final TimeZone TIMEZONE_UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
+
     private final TrueTypeFont ttf;
     private final CmapLookup unicodeCmap;
     private final SortedMap<Integer, Integer> uniToGID;
@@ -1084,7 +1086,7 @@ private void writeUint8(DataOutputStream out, int i) throws IOException
     private void writeLongDateTime(DataOutputStream out, Calendar calendar) throws IOException
     {
         // inverse operation of TTFDataStream.readInternationalDate()
-        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
+        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TIMEZONE_UTC);
         cal.set(1904, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0);
         cal.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
         long millisFor1904 = cal.getTimeInMillis();