diff --git a/src/main/java/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.java b/src/main/java/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a35f37612..0000000000
--- a/src/main/java/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-package emissary.util;
-
-import emissary.config.Configurator;
-
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.List;
-
-public class DateTimeFormatParserLegacy {
-
-    protected static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.class);
-
-    /** Date formats we can use to parse event date strings */
-    @Deprecated
-    protected static final List<SimpleDateFormat> dateFormats = new ArrayList<>();
-
-    static {
-        configure();
-    }
-
-    protected static void configure() {
-        try {
-            Configurator configG = emissary.config.ConfigUtil.getConfigInfo(DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.class);
-            for (final String dfentry : configG.findEntries("DATE_FORMAT")) {
-                try {
-                    final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(dfentry);
-                    sdf.setLenient(true);
-                    dateFormats.add(sdf);
-                } catch (Exception ex) {
-                    logger.debug("DATE_FORMAT entry '{}' cannot be parsed", dfentry, ex);
-                }
-            }
-            logger.debug("Loaded {} DATE_FORMAT entries", dateFormats.size());
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            logger.error("Cannot open default config file", e);
-        }
-    }
-
-
-    /**
-     * Parse an RFC-822 Date or one of the thousands of variants make a quick attempt to normalize the timezone information
-     * and get the timestamp in GMT. Should change to pass in a default from the U124 header
-     *
-     * @param dateString the string date from the RFC 822 Date header
-     * @param supplyDefaultOnBad when true use current date if sentDate is unparseable
-     * @return the GMT time of the event or NOW if unparseable, or null if supplyDefaultOnBad is false
-     */
-    @Deprecated
-    public static Date parseEventDate(final String dateString, final boolean supplyDefaultOnBad) {
-        Date date = null;
-        if (dateString != null && dateString.length() > 0) {
-            // Take it apart and stick it back together to get
-            // get rid of multiple contiguous spaces
-            String instr = dateString.replaceAll("\t+", " "); // tabs
-            instr = instr.replaceAll("[ ]+", " "); // multiple spaces
-            instr = instr.replaceAll("=0D$", ""); // common qp'ified ending
-
-            // try each date format in turn until one works
-            synchronized (dateFormats) {
-                for (final SimpleDateFormat sdf : dateFormats) {
-                    try {
-                        date = sdf.parse(instr);
-                        break;
-                    } catch (Exception e) {
-                        // Ignore.
-                        logger.debug("Error parsing date", e);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Use the default if required
-        if (date == null && supplyDefaultOnBad) {
-            date = new Date();
-        }
-
-        // Let them have it.
-        return date;
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.cfg b/src/main/resources/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 01c340b2ab..0000000000
--- a/src/main/resources/emissary/util/DateTimeFormatParserLegacy.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-
-# see SimpleDateFormat javadocs to understand these
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy H:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy KK:mm:ss a Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E d MMM. yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM. yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z (z)"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy KK:mm a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy KK:mm a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy KK:mm:ss a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy KK:mm"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy KK:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy HH:mm"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy kk:mm"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yy kk:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "d MMM yyyy HH:mm z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "d MMM yyyy HH:mm"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E,d MMM yyyy KK:mm:ss a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm:ss"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm:ss a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm:ss a z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm:ss a Z"
-DATE_FORMAT = "E, d MMM, yyyy HH:mm:ss a"
-DATE_FORMAT = "dd-MM-yyyy"
-DATE_FORMAT = "dd.MM.yyyy"
-DATE_FORMAT = "dd/MM/yyyy"