date format and converting that date to JodaTime

Question

I want to use date as a parameter with a url call in the following format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.When i checked java Date it is in how can i do that in java ? or i have to give time manually using the below code?

public static long start_date=20140423101010L;

the above variable has a date from the year 2014 month 04, date 23, and time hour :10., min:10 and sec :10. I want this time in the above format (YYYYMMDDHHMMSS) to JodaTime.

Is it possible to do that?

Answer 1

Try

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
DateTime dateTime = formatter.parseDateTime(String.valueOf(start_date));