Possible wrong result from JodaTime

Question

I'm using JodaTime for Android (link) and I'm trying to calculate the Period between two dates.

One date is from server with Europe/London timezone and the other date is one I create like :

DateTimeZone dateTimeZone = DateTimeZone.forTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));
DateTime now = DateTime.now(dateTimeZone);

What I want is to get the Period between now and the date I get from the server.

I'm creating a new Period instance like this :

Period period = new Period(serverDateTime, now, PeriodType.yearMonthDayTime());

but the results I get every time have an offset of 2 hours.

If I print serverDateTime : 2017-02-04T14:30:00.000+02:00 and now : 2017-02-04T14:30:13.862Z

and for those values I get a period.getHours() == 2.

What should I change? Both times seem correct but somewhere there's an error

Answer 1

So I was creating the time from server (which I got as a String) like :

DateTime serverDateTime = new DateTime(Integer.valueOf(year), Integer.valueOf(month),
            Integer.valueOf(day), Integer.valueOf(hours), Integer.valueOf(minutes));

and all I have to do was to add the timezone, so the answer is :

DateTime serverDateTime = new DateTime(Integer.valueOf(year), Integer.valueOf(month),
            Integer.valueOf(day), Integer.valueOf(hours), Integer.valueOf(minutes), dateTimeZone);