Re: [Joda-interest] Parsing inconsistent dates

[Stephen C. <sco...@jo...>]

The parser interprets dates using a simple algorithm where it sets one field
on top of another with no cross-checks like this. Changing this design is
hard.

ThreeTen/JSR-310 is intended to have a parser that interprets things better.

Stephen


On 5 October 2011 09:33, Millies, Sebastian <
Seb...@so...> wrote:

>  Hello there, when parsing
>
>
>
> DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.*forPattern*( "E MM dd HH:mm:ss Z
> yyyy" );
>
> DateTime dt = fmt.withLocale( Locale.*US* ).parseDateTime( "Friday 09 24
> 11:22:33 +02:00 2011" );
>
> Date actual = dt.toDate();
>
>
>
> I get back Fri Sep 23 11:22:33 CEST 2011
>
> I might have expected Sat Sep 24 11:22:33 CEST 2011
>
>
>
> The point is that actually September 23 is the Friday and September 24 the
> Saturday. Shouldn’t
>
> parseDateTime have thrown an IllegalArgumentException or some such?
>
>
>
> n  Sebastian
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