GitHub, the sourceforge one is an occasionally updated version https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time Stephen
On 30 July 2011 22:21, Millies, Sebastian <sebastian.mill...@softwareag.com> wrote: > oh, good. Which git would that be? (Sorry, I'm new to Joda. > I just cloned git://joda-time.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/joda-time/joda-time, > but that doesn't seem to have the change.) > -- Sebastian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebou...@joda.org] > Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:28 PM > To: Discussion of the Joda project > Subject: Re: [Joda-interest] DateTimeFormatter Bug parsing with general time > zones in US Locale? > > Printers and parsers do not have to match, and since printing is > possible it is supported. Parsing is the problem. > > I've added to git new methods in the builder that allow the caller to > pass in the mapping from String to zone. While this isn't the nicest > thing to have to do, it is the most reliable. > > Stephe > > > On 30 July 2011 10:01, Millies, Sebastian > <sebastian.mill...@softwareag.com> wrote: >> well yes, but why then are they output? I need a way to parse the output >> of the formatter back to a date. And how does SimpleDateFormat manage? >> >> --Sebastian >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebou...@joda.org] >> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 10:33 AM >> To: Discussion of the Joda project >> Subject: Re: [Joda-interest] DateTimeFormatter Bug parsing with general time >> zones in US Locale? >> >> 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? 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