title: How to parse Joda time of this format
body: <p>I converted DateString of format <code>YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS</code> in my JSON and persisted to POJO using the code </p>
  
  <pre><code>DateTimeFormatter format = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
  this.startDate = format.parseDateTime(startDate);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I convert the POJO back to JSON, the date is written like <code>2013-07-12T18:31:01.000Z</code>.<br>
  How do we parse the time string <code>2013-07-12T18:31:01.000Z</code> back to JodaDateTime object. What should be the formatter.<br>
  I used <code>YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS</code> and it didn't work</p>