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

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

java datetime jodatime

I know this is an old question, but I wanted to add that, as of JodaTime 2.0, you can do this with a one-liner:

DateTime date = DateTime.parse("04/02/2011 20:27:05",                   DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));

java datetime jodatime

DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss").parseDateTime("04/02/2011 20:27:05");

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