Java – jodatime string yyyy mm ddthh: MMSs Z to datetime

Hi, I'm using joda time to convert my string date to a datetime object

I currently have the following string:

2014-02-16T00:17:20.000Z

How do I convert it to a datetime object?

I tried:

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZ");
        DateTime dt = formatter.parseDateTime("2014-02-16T00:17:20.000Z");

But I received the following error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "2014-02-16T00:17:20.000Z" is malformed at ".000Z"

Any help is greatly appreciated

Solution

For future visitors, a simpler solution:

String date = "2014-02-16T00:17:20.000Z";
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(date);