How to handle jodatime Illegal instant due to time zone offset transition

Question

I want to set up joda DateTime to today at 2 AM (see sample code below). But I\'m getting this exception:

Exception in thread \"main\" org.joda.         


        

Answer 1

CET switches to DST (summer time) on the last Sunday in March, which happens to be today. The time went from 1:59:59 to 3:00:00 – there's no 2, hence the exception.

You should use UTC instead of local time to avoid this kind of time zone issue.

MutableDateTime now = new MutableDateTime(DateTimeZone.UTC);