Re: simpledateformat

Does this do what you want?

     SimpleTimeZone myZone = new SimpleTimeZone(-5*60*60*1000,"myZone");
     SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
     sdf.setTimeZone(myZone);
     Date d = sdf.parse("08/01/2002 12:00:00");
     System.out.println(sdf.format(d));

08/01/2002 12:00:00

Rich Hammer


Prashant Pai wrote:
> The desired output is being able to parse that string.
> 
> so if I do
> 
> SimpleDateFormat sdf = new
> SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss z");
> 
> System.out.println(sdf.parse("08/01/2002 12:00:00
> EST"));
> 
> Then I get "Thu Aug 01 13:00:00 EDT 2002"
> 
> What do I do to keep it in EST?