That explains it.  Thanks.

-dain

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM, D.M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> The JavaDoc for DateTimeFormat
> (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/api-release/index.html) says "Zone
> names: Time zone names ('z') cannot be parsed" I'm not an expert, but
> I think this is because there are duplicates in the three-character
> time zone abbreviations. The "C" in CST could be Central, or it could
> be China.
>
> Whenever I need to read a zoned datetime, I use the zone id, "ZZZ".
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Dain Sundstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm having a problem parsing short timezones with the pattern 'zzz'.
>> For example, the following code throws an IllegalArgumentException:
>>
>> DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("HH:mm:ss zzz");
>> formatter.parseDateTime(formatter.print(new DateTime()));
>>
>>
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "10:40:00 PDT" is
>> malformed at "PDT"
>>        at 
>> org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseDateTime(DateTimeFormatter.java:683)
>>        at 
>> proofpoint.rep.whois.WhoIsParserTest.testTimeParser(WhoIsParserTest.java:19)
>>
>>
>> I'm using joda-time-1.6.2.jar
>>
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -dain
>>
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