Fail to parse date with time zone with Joda Time

Question

I am trying to use Joda Time both for formatting DateTime objects to String and than parse these strings back to DateTime. But I am failing to so when the pattern includes z:

    DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS z");

    String dts = dtf.print(System.currentTimeMillis());

    System.out.println(dts);

    DateTime dt = dtf.parseDateTime(dts);

The above code is throwing exception when the parsing the String to DateTime takes occurred.

Do you have any idea?

Yosi

What's the exception? What is the value of dts that gets printed? — Mike Q, Aug 03 '11 at 07:45
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4498274/why-joda-datetimeformatter-cannot-parse-timezone-names-z — Iker Jimenez, Sep 23 '11 at 12:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:54

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You can do:

DateTime dt = new DateTime();
System.out.println(dt.toString("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS z"));

Have a look in the user guide

answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:54

dimitrisli

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:59

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The Pattern is not correct, maybe try this one

DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS'z" );

this worked for me

answered Aug 03 '11 at 07:59

mana

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Fail to parse date with time zone with Joda Time

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