Enhance Javadoc wrt parsing of format patterns

Fixes JodaOrg#60
Guardiola31337 · Sep 12, 2013 · 11489f9 · 11489f9
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Deprecations since 2.3
 
 Bug fixes since 2.3
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+- Better Javadoc for parsing of numbers in format patterns [#60]
 
 
 Scala

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.java b/src/main/java/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.java
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@
  * the full form is used; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if
  * available.
  * <p>
- * <strong>Number</strong>: The minimum number of digits. Shorter numbers
- * are zero-padded to this amount.
+ * <strong>Number</strong>: The minimum number of digits.
+ * Shorter numbers are zero-padded to this amount.
+ * When parsing, any number of digits are accepted.
  * <p>
  * <strong>Year</strong>: Numeric presentation for year and weekyear fields
  * are handled specially. For example, if the count of 'y' is 2, the year