The official documentation contains partial information about using of @DateTimeFormat annotation. According to JavaDocs and source code of org.springframework.format.support.DefaultFormattingConversionService class there is support for Joda-Time value types. https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/format/annotation/DateTimeFormat.html

Comment From: sbrannen

The reference to Joda Time support was intentionally removed in https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/078543ce67e79c2ea582acd32682b856d62442ab#diff-187b205dd272aa8dfe369b772357a487066110f59a9d1990389864343d58c39b.

I am therefore closing this PR.

However, feel free to submit a new PR to update the Javadoc for @DateTimeFormat to remove the comments regarding Joda Time support (see #25736).