Converting a formatted date string to a DateTime object using Joda Time library August 17, 2019 - by Pupli DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"); DateTime dt = formatter.parseDateTime(string); References https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6252678/converting-a-date-string-to-a-datetime-object-using-joda-time-library