Question

I have a String “26/09/2012 07:30:00” is it possible to create a new DateTime based on this String? Eventually i just want the time eg 7:30. I am going to format the DateTime by using DateFormatter eg

DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("k,m"); 

My question is how to construct a DT from the orginal String, i can format it once it’s a DT.

Answer 1

Create an appropriate DateTimeFormatter for the input format, and then call DateTimeFormatter.parseLocalDateTime. (LocalDateTime is more appropriate than DateTime here, as your input data doesn’t have a time zone or UTC offset indicator. You can convert to DateTime if you really need to, but it sound like you don’t.)