I want to use joda to parse datetime strings in emails. Unfortunately I get all kinds of different formats, for example

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:52:31 -0600
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:15:34 -0800 (PST)
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:03:48 +0000 (UTC)
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:02:08 -0600 (CST)
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:39:55 +0100 (CET)
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:50:42 -0500 (EST)
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:38:25 GMT
Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:38:24 +0200 
Fri,  8 Apr 2011 05:13:36 -0700 (MST)
20 Apr 2011 03:00:46 -0400

The code below catches most of the variants but not all (for example, when there are two spaces instead of one, when the comma is missing etc.). And it looks just awkward.

Is there a more elegant way to handle this? Please advise.

            DateTimeParser[] parsers = {
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(CET)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(CST)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(CEST)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(GMT)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(MST)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(PST)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(UTC)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(EST)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(EDT)'").getParser(),
                    DateTimeFormat.forPattern("E, d MMM y HH:mm:ss Z '(CDT)'").getParser(),
            };
            DateTimeFormatter inputFormatter = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder().append(null, parsers).toFormatter();

            try {
                calendar = inputFormatter.wi
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