Converting a date string to a DateTime object using Joda Time library

Question

We have a date as a string in the following format "02/02/2011 20:27:05". We are using Joda-Time library and would like to convert it to DateTime object. I did:

DateTime dt = new DateTime("04/02/2011 20:27:05")

But I'm getting the following error :

Invalid format: "02/02/2011 14:42:17" is malformed at "/02/2011 14:42:17"

How to convert the above date to a DateTime object?

Answer 1

Use DateTimeFormat:

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
DateTime dt = formatter.parseDateTime(string);