I really hope we're missing something obvious. So, in SimpleDateFormat Java provides us with two definitions of time zone, the General (z) and the RFC 822 (Z). General is long format, short format or ...
Date: Fri Nov 07 17:03:28 EST 2008 EST Time (format): Fri Nov 7 17:03:28 EST 2008 GMT Time (format): Fri Nov 7 22:03:28 GMT 2008 EST Time (parse): Fri Nov 07 17:03:28 ...