org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat help

[Greg Haverkamp]

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at cpp.edu> wrote:

> Seems a bit user unfriendly. Would you ever use just one M in a match?
> Only if you were restricting your dates to January through September in
> numeric non-zero filled form 8-/?
>

It says:
Number: The _minimum_ number of digits. Shorter numbers are zero-padded to
this amount.
...
Month: 3 or over, use text, otherwise use number.

So, "M" sets the minimum number of digits, not the maximum.  So, M gives
you 1-12, unpadded, while MM should give you 01-12, padded.

Greg
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