Parsing date with Joda API

Question

I have a string which contains a date \"25 December 1985\". How to parse it using Joda API?

DateTime dt = new DateTime(\"25 December 1985\");
System.out.println(         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd MMMM YYYY").withLocale(Locale.ENGLISH);
DateTime dt = dtf.parseDateTime("25 December 1985");
System.out.println(dt.getDayOfWeek());