JDBC Timestamp & Date GMT issues

Question

I have a JDBC Date column, which if a i use getDate is get the \'date\' part only 02 Oct 2009 but if i use getTimestamp i get the full \'date\

Answer 1

private Date convertDate(Date date1) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat sdfFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        String dateStr = sdfFormatter.format(date1);
        SimpleDateFormat sdfParser = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        sdfParser.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
        return sdfParser.parse(dateStr);
    }