converting string (GMT date) to date in US time.

[JRuyechan]

I'm trying to convert a string (date in GMT time) to a date and then convert that date from GMT time to US time. Us time depends on facilites local timezone. The date string is parsed from XML message. I retrieve the GMToffset.

String gmtFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'";
gmtOffSet = "GMT-04:00";
String datein = "2010-10-12T20:01:18.000Z";

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(gmtformat);
dateStringin = sdf.parse(datein); //but this parses the date to EDT time (default of system)

//convert from GMT to timezone needed
TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone(GMTOffSet);
sdf.setTimeZone(tz);
dateStr = sdf.format(dateStringin);

[masijade]

Set the timezone on "gmtFormat" before parsing the date String.