Comparing dates ignoring the seconds and the milliseconds instant of DateTime in Joda

Let's assume that I have two dates like the following.

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss").withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kolkata"));
DateTime firstDate = formatter.parseDateTime("16-Feb-2012 12:03:45");
DateTime secondDate = formatter.parseDateTime("17-Feb-2013 12:03:45");

I want to compare these two dates to see whether firstDate is sooner, later or equal to secondDate.

I could try the following.

System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.isBefore(secondDate));
System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.isAfter(secondDate));
System.out.println("firstDate = "+firstDate+"\nsecondDate = "+secondDate+"\ncomparison = "+firstDate.equals(secondDate));

What is produced by this code is exactly what I want.

It produces the following output.

firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = true

firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = false

firstDate = 2012-02-16T12:03:45.000+05:30
secondDate = 2013-02-17T12:03:45.000+05:30
comparison = false

I need to ignore the seconds and the milliseconds portion of these dates. I have tried to use the withSecondOfMinute(0) and withMillis(0) methods like the following.

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss").withZone(DateTimeZone.forID("Asia/Kolkata"));
DateTime firstDate = formatter.parseDateTime("16-Feb-2012 12:03:45").withSecondOfMinute(0).withMillis(0);
DateTime secondDate = formatter.parseDateTime("17-Feb-2013 12:03:45").withSecondOfMinute(0).withMillis(0);        

But it yielded the following output.

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