Mykel Alvis wrote:
The string I receive from a service is formatted as "3 PM CST 18 MAR
06". Time zones are relevant, and I do have an offset available as
"-6". However, according to the documentation I think I should be
able to parse the supplied string as
DateTimeFormat.forPattern("hh aa zzz dd MMM yy")
Inevitibly, I get a :
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "3 PM CST 18 MAR
06" is malformed at "CST 18 MAR 06"
The reason for this is that 'CST' is a short format time zone name.
These are unclear and ambiguous hence we don't parse them.
It is fustrating however to have Joda-Time unable to do something the
JDK can so maybe we should look at changing this somehow.
In the meantime, you can:
a) Use SimpleDateFormat :-(
b) Split the input yourself and parse the timezone yourself
c) Implement the Joda-Time DateTimeParser interface yourself to match
'CST' into a proper DateTimeZone, and then use DateTimeFormatterBuilder
to create a combined parser using patterns and your implementation thus
creating a full parser.
Stephen
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