JodaTime throws IllegalArgumentException with Date string from EXIF metadata

I'm writing some code to store metadata from uploaded images in the database. One of those fields is the photo Capture Date. The API I'm using returns the Capture Date in the String format

Sat Nov 01 20:08:07 UTC 2014

However, Joda Time throws an IllegalArgumentException when creating a DateTime or LocalDateTime. Conversely, java.util.Date accepts the string formatting and creates a Date object with no issue.

One solution is to do 

Date tempDate = new Date("Sat Nov 01 20:08:07 UTC 2014");
DateTime captureDate = new DateTime(tempDate);

but this requires creating two separate objects to persist one. Given the string format above, is it possible to convince JodaTime to create a DateTime object without an intermediary Date initialization?

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The Joda Time DateTime and LocalDate constructors which take Object have documentation including:

The String formats are described by ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeParser().

The text you're providing is not in an ISO format.

Instead, you should create a DateTimeFormatter for the format you're using, e.g. via DateTimeFormat.forPattern, specifying the locale, time zone etc. (It's not clear from your example whether it's always going to be in UTC, or whether you need time zone handling.)

For example:

private static final DateTimeFormatter DATETIME_PARSER =
    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'UTC' yyyy")
        .withLocale(Locale.US)
        .withZoneUTC();

...

DateTime dateTime = DATETIME_PARSER.parseDateTime(text);

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