title: Joda-time from LocalDateTime string to LocalDate
body: <p>I'm using JodaTime to get the date and time of creation of an account. The format being </p>
  
  <pre><code>2017-04-05T12:38:35.585
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I get this I store it in my database as a string so I've looked around for ways to format this from a string to LocalDate but haven't been succesful in anything I've found online. My next step is a horrible solution in my opinion to loop through the string until I find the T and remove everything after it. So I'm left with </p>
  
  <pre><code>2017-04-05. 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But Ideally if possible have the date as </p>
  
  <pre><code>05/04/2017
  </code></pre>