Stephen, thanks for the answer - I already have some code to accomplish the task (however, it's not very generic - basically counting dashes an colons). Maybe it is easy to incoporate this useful feature in future jodatime releases - the parsers for ISO DateTime String might already contain the required logic.
Matthias Am 04.05.2011 14:26, schrieb Stephen Colebourne: > There is no way in Joda-Time to "reverse engineer" a format from a string. > > You could start with a list of possible formats, and try each one to > see which work and which don't. > > Stephen > > > 2011/5/2 Matthias Müller<matthias_muel...@tu-dresden.de>: >> Hi jodatime folks, >> >> is there a convenient way to obtain the DateTimeFormat from a dateTime >> String (e.g. 2001-01-01)? I have to create a list of valid timestamps >> from an initial _baseDate_, and a given increment (e.g. "month"). >> The outputs shall be printed later on in the same format as _baseDate_. >> >> Thanks, >> Matthias >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software >> The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network >> management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial >> acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd >> _______________________________________________ >> Joda-interest mailing list >> Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > -- Matthias Müller Dipl.-Geogr. | Research Associate Technische Universität Dresden Geoinformation Systems 01062 Dresden Phone: +49 351 463-31953 Fax: +49 351 463-35879 Mail: matthias_muel...@tu-dresden.de www: http://tu-dresden.de/fgh/geo/gis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
