Blackberry Java String to date conversion

Question

I used following code to convert string to date but it is applying timezone of device while conversion.
I don't need this but I want same date/time from that string like

String = "2009-07-31 07:59:17.427"
Date = 2009-07-31 07:59:17.427

Date formatter = new Date(HttpDateParser.parse("2009-07-31 07:59:17.427"));
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String strCustomDateTime = dateFormat.format(formatter);

Answer 1

You may take in account default timezone offset to date you get after parsing:

public static String StringToDate(String dateToParse) {

    Date formatter = new Date(HttpDateParser.parse(dateToParse));
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
            "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
    int offset = TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();
    formatter.setTime(formatter.getTime() + offset);
    String strCustomDateTime = dateFormat.format(formatter);
    return strCustomDateTime;
}