I am simply trying to convert a date string into a DateTime object in Java 8. Upon running the following lines:
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd");
LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.parse("20140218", formatter);
I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.time.format.DateTimeParseException:
Text '20140218' could not be parsed:
Unable to obtain LocalDateTime from TemporalAccessor:
{},ISO resolved to 2014-02-18 of type java.time.format.Parsed
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.createError(DateTimeFormatter.java:1918)
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1853)
at java.time.LocalDateTime.parse(LocalDateTime.java:492)
The syntax is identical to what has been suggested here, yet I am served with an exception. I am using JDK-8u25
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