Joda Time bug or my mistake? (Java Joda Time dates as strings parsing)

Question

so I was having a problem parsing a date, using the JodaTime chronology IslamicChronology so wrote a small example to demonstrate my problem.

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Answer 1

MMM in the format template indicates the abbreviated month name. A numeric month index should be indicated with MM.

After reading your comment on dtsazza's answer, I first realized your actual problem. :)

I've taken a look into the JODA source code and it seems as if the support for the Islamic chronlogy is rather broken. First of all, the formatter does not support month names, so that the patterns MMM and MMMM are formatted as the month number, although according to the documentation of DateTimeFormat, the abbreviated month name should be used for MMM and the full month name for MMMM.

One problem with your code example is that parseMillis is always using the ISO chronology, although the formatter has been configured with another chronology. This is also mentioned in the API documentation, although not particulary intuitive.

If I replace parseMillis with parseDateTime, I would have expected the chronology to be used for parsing (at least the documentation says so), but it looks as if the implementation ignores the configured chronology and goes on with the ISO chronology here as well.