Time Zone Z associated with date

[prince davies]

IN xsd date is represented like <endDateTime>2011-08-02Z</endDateTime>

if you look closer you see "z" associated with the date.

protected Date getExpiryDate( ){
	  Date date = null;
	  DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);	  
	   df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
	   String endDate = df.format(getEndDateTime().getTime());

                   // here i am getting right data like  August 2, 2011
	   SimpleDateFormat  sdf =  new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");  
	   
	    try{ 
	    	date =  sdf.parse(endDate);
                           // here i am getting wrong data like 

	    }catch(ParseException e){e.printStackTrace();}; 	
	    return date;	 
	   
	   
	  
	}

When i use format method to get string ,it will return me correct data.
but when i convert date string to date ,it returns me wrong date ,

format = August 2, 2011
parse = august 01.2011
how do i resolve this issue?

[prince davies]

i need this method should return date object and date should be standardized one or it should be accordance with the date stored in database (time zone)

[prince davies]

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();  

02    

03 TimeZone myZone = TimeZone.getDefault();  

04 // remove information of my timezone, we need to get UTC time  

05 calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, myZone.getRawOffset() * -1);  

06 // remove also current daylight time savings information  

07 if (myZone.inDaylightTime(calendar.getTime())) {  

08     calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, calendar.getTimeZone().getDSTSavings() * -1);  

09 }  

10    

11 TimeZone zone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Berlin");  

12 // add information of the target timezone, from the UTC time  

13 calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, zone.getRawOffset());  

14 // add target timezone's daylight savings information  

15 if (zone.inDaylightTime(calendar.getTime())) {  

16     calendar.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, zone.getDSTSavings());  

17 }  

18    
[code=java]
19 System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm").format(calendar.getTime())); 

public String formatGMTDate(Date date) {

String result = " ";
if (date != null) {
SimpleDateFormat gmtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT, getLocale());
TimeZone gmtTime = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
gmtFormat.setTimeZone(gmtTime);
result = gmtFormat.format(date);
}
return result;
}[/code]

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