How convert a german date string to datetime format

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I’m really not all that great about DateTime conversions. But it looks like all you need to do is replace the . with - and the space with T to get to an ISO 8601 format which is what Joda DateTime likes. I’m not even certain the space needs to be replaced.

val parsedDateTime = new DateTime("12.11.2001 20:37:47".replace('.', '-').replace(' ', 'T'))

One thing to realize is SimpleDateFormat works with Java’s built in Date classes. DateTime comes from Joda, not Java’s internal classes so I doubt SimpleDateFormat would work.

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