Converting string to date with timezone

Question

I have a string in the pattern yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm a and i can get the time zone object separately in which the above string represents the date.

I want to convert this

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat

String string1 = "2009-10-10 12:12:12 ";
SimpleDateFormat sdf =  new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z")
sdf.setTimeZone(tz);
Date date = sdf.parse(string1);