Question

I am trying to import a given string representing a Date in the format:

2007-03-12T00:00:00.000+01:00 

Now to create a new Date Object i use Joda Library using:

DateTime date = new DateTime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second);

However, i want to make sure two things here:

• How to handle GTM +1 in this date time context?
• Is there anyway,
  that i don’t have to parse this string, and the Date Object can be
  initialized directly with this string?

Answer 1

DateTime date = DateTime.parse("2007-03-12T00:00:00.000+01:00");

As has been mentioned in other answers, the offset is supposed to be parsed along with the rest of the string according to the documentation.