Parsing date with Joda with time zone

Question

I have two timestamps which describe the same instant of time in two different formats.

2010-10-03 18:58:07 and 2010-10-03T16:58:07.000+02:00

Answer 1

If your default time zome is Europe/Berlin, 2010-10-03 18:58:07 corresponds to 2010-10-03T16:58:07.000+00:00.

You probably misunderstand the time zone field in the string representation. Your time stamp 2010-10-03T16:58:07.000+02:00 means that "it is 16:58:07 in a time zone with a +2 hour offset from GMT), or in an other wording "it is now 16:58:07 in Berlin". I assume that you expected it to mean that it's 16:58:07 GMT?