In joda time how to convert time zone without changing time

Question

I am getting UTC timestamp from database which is I am setting into a JodaTime DateTime instance

DateTime dt = new DateTime(timestamp.getTime())         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem. After reading this set of useful answers, and given my particular needs and available objects, I solved it by using another DateTime constructor:

new DateTime("2012-04-23T18:25:46.511Z", DateTimeZone.UTC)