Joda DateTime: Parse date with “CEST” in string

Question

I want to parse a DateTime using the joda library (in scala, but should be the same with java).

The source looks like

val dateParser = DateTimeFormat         


        

Answer 1

Apply parsing with a java.util.Dateinstance allows you to apply a workaround since CEST is not well parsing since not unique:

DateFormat dateParser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z");
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(dateParser.parse("2012-08-28 15:35:00 CEST"));
//Here parsed `java.util.Date` instance is back to an instance of org.jodatime.DateTime`

Benefit of this workaround: to not bother with "which version works with this timezone???"