Incorrect Joda Time parsing of String to LocalDate

Question

Here's the string I'm trying to format

10-12-2015

Which stands for october 12 2015. However when I'm parsing it as a a LocalDate. using this

LocalDate ld = LocalDate.parse(dto.getTargetDate(), DateTimeFormat.forPattern("mm-dd-yyyy"))

the result is always 2015-01-12

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Just change mm to MM, because mm is for minutes.

Thus, when parsing you put a year equal to 2015, day to 12 and minutes to 10. All other fields are default values, month is January, hours - 00, and so on. That's why you get 12 January 2015.

Answer 2

Month is uppercase M. The lowercase m is minute.