android - How to create a valid DateTime object from String -

i have following string.

21-mar-2014 

how can convert valid joda datetime object?

i've tried following no joy:

datetimeformatter formatter = datetimeformat.forpattern("d-mmm/y");             datetime dt = formatter.parsedatetime(date); 

thanks in advance

matt

a genuine joda answer corrected pattern string , explicit locale:

string input = "21-mar-2014"; datetimeformatter dtf = datetimeformat.forpattern("dd-mmm-yyyy").withlocale(locale.english); datetime dt = dtf.parsedatetime(input); // using default time zone system.out.println(dt); // 2014-03-21t00:00:00.000+01:00 (my zone: europe/berlin) 

if don't need time part (regarding input!) recommend use:

localdate date = dtf.parselocaldate(input);