How to properly format date "Oct 06" in Java JodaTime?

Question

Java

There is a date "Oct 06", I tried to format it like this:

DateTime to_date = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("M d").parseDateTime(massive.get(i).date);

But it doesn't work, it pops up:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: "Oct 06"

Everything seems to be according to the documentation, "M" => month, "d" => day of the month, but it doesn't work(

Answer 1

The current locale is probably Russian, so "Oct" is expected instead of " M ", not "Oct". But you can also explicitly specify the locale:

DateTimeFormat
  .forPattern("M d")
  .withLocale(Locale.US)
  .parseDateTime(massive.get(i).date);