Parsing a Date and Time string into a ZonedDateTime object

M.E. :

I am trying to parse a String with a date and time in a known time zone. The strings have the following format:

2019-03-07 00:05:00-05:00

I have tried this:

package com.example.test;

import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class Test {

    public static void main( String[] args ) {

        ZoneId myTimeZone = ZoneId.of("US/Eastern");

        DateTimeFormatter dateTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ssXX");

        ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse("2019-03-07 00:05:00-05:00", dateTimeFormatter.withZone(myTimeZone));

        System.out.println(zdt);

    }

}

This is the exception thrown:

Exception in thread "main" java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '2019-03-07 00:05:00-05:00' could not be parsed at index 19
    at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseResolved0(DateTimeFormatter.java:1949)
    at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1851)
    at java.time.ZonedDateTime.parse(ZonedDateTime.java:597)
    at com.example.test.Test.main(Test.java:24)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.2\executor-snippets\run.xml:53: Java returned: 1
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

I am using Java 1.8.0_191.

amseager :

Use this pattern: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssXXX

From the docs:

Offset X and x: ... Two letters outputs the hour and minute, without a colon, such as '+0130'. Three letters outputs the hour and minute, with a colon, such as '+01:30'.

So if your string contains a colon inside timezone, you should use 3 "X-es".

And capital Y means "week-based-year", not a regular one (y).