There is no reason why long time zone ids cannot be parsed, just that it is code that no one ever wrote. To achieve it in JSR-310 required a relatively complex trie type structure for efficient parsing. If you want to write a patch against svn head with tests, feel free! Stephen
On 29 November 2010 22:47, Aaron Baff <[email protected]> wrote: > I completely understand why you don't want to try and parse the Short > Timezone names, but what about long ones like America/Los_Angeles? Why can't > those be parsed? It would make it a LOT easier since I need to have the > timezone which accounts for DST, and I always have been using the Long > Name's. Currently I just have a REGEX that I use to parse out the bits and > pieces, and then use them all individually to create the DateTime object. > > --Aaron > >>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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
