JodaTime does not recognize some Android time zones

Question

I use JodaTime in my application and I get reports from the developer console about crashes like this:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {com.myapp.app/Home}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The datetime zone id 'Africa/Abuja' is not recognised
....
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The datetime zone id 'Africa/Abuja' is not recognised
at org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.forTimeZone(DateTimeZone.java:337)
...

I use this line of code to get Timezone:

DateTimeZone tz = DateTimeZone.forTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

Interestingly, most failures Africa/****.

TimeZone.getDefault() is part of the Android API, so I assumed that it will return the used timezone identifiers.

Is there anything I can do with these time zones to use them correctly? Is this a known issue with Android and Joda Time?

Answer 1

Use this adapted Android version of Joda: https://github.com/dlew/joda-time-android

JodaTimeAndroid.init(this); onCreate ( ), voilà, , .

Answer 2

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