How do I display a date with a custom timezone?

Question

Lets say I have a string that represents a date that looks like this:

\"Wed Jul 08 17:08:48 GMT 2009\"

So I parse that string into a date object like this:

Answer 1

Using:

formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("US/Central"));

outputs:

Wed Jul 08 12:08:48 CDT 2009

for the date in your example on my machine. That is after substituting zzz for ZZZ in the format string.