This is by design. Short time zone names like CEST are not unique, so cannot be accurately parsed.
Stephen On 30 July 2011 09:31, Millies, Sebastian <sebastian.mill...@softwareag.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > the DateTimeFormatter does not seem to be able to parse its own output in > Joda 1.6.2. > Example: > > Date date = new Date(); > DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "E MM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy" > ); > DateTime dt = new DateTime( date ); > String result = fmt.withLocale( Locale.US ).print( dt ); > > will yield "Sat 07 30 10:19:04 CEST 2011" on my machine (JDK 1.6, default > Locale German). > However, feeding back that result into the DateTimeFormatter to parse: > > DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern( "E MM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy" > ); > DateTime dt = fmt.withLocale( Locale.US ).parseDateTime( "Sat 07 30 10:19:04 > CEST 2011"); > Date date = dt.toDate(); > > will lead to > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "Sat 07 30 10:19:04 CEST > 2011" is > malformed at "CEST 2011" > > I note that "CEST" is not part of the array returned by > java.util.TimeZone.getAvailableIDs(). > However, the corresponding JDK code will still work OK: > > DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat( "E MM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy", Locale.US ); > Date date = df.parse( "Sat 07 30 10:19:04 CEST 2011" ); > > Am I overlooking something or is this really a bug? > > -- Sebastian > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. > Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. > Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
