It's my understanding from ISO8601 that when you include a trailing 'Z' in a
string form of a date/time that that indicates the timezone as UTC.
However when giving a string of this form to Joda, it instead converts it to
local timezone unless you force it to UTC:
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
public class JodaDateTimeZone {
// example date from ISO spec:
// http://dotat.at/tmp/ISO_8601-2004_E.pdf
private static final String UTC_DATE = "1985-04-12T10:15:30Z";
public static void main(String[] args) {
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(UTC_DATE);
System.out.println(dateTime.toString());
dateTime = new DateTime(UTC_DATE, DateTimeZone.UTC);
System.out.println(dateTime.toString());
}
}
Can someone explain the rationale behind this unexpected behavior?
Thanks,
Ed
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