http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5040
------- Additional Comments From damjan.jov@gmail.com 2007-09-02 04:26 ------- I sent in some patches to get Java 1.4.x working properly, and in the latest GIT, SimpleDateFormatDemo.java now works with wine's own (builtin) msvcrt.dll.
So try MATLAB on the latest GIT (or wine 0.9.31, when it comes out) without an override for msvcrt.