Why does parsing a date with weekyear return the wrong year?

Question

DateTime time=DateTimeFormat.forPattern(\"yyyy-ww\").parseDateTime(\"2013-01\"); 

where DateTimeFormat is org.joda.time.format.DateT

Answer 1

See here.

The w, week of weekyear, pattern letter is meant to be used with x, weekyear. From the javadoc of DateTimeFormat

 x       weekyear                     year          1996
 w       week of weekyear             number        27

Change your pattern to

DateTimeFormat.forPattern("xxxx-ww")

and you'll parse to

2012-12-31T00:00:00.000-08:00

Depending on your Locale, the first week of 2013 started in 2012.