How do I parse a standard date into GMT?

Question

Can someone show me a piece of java code that parses this date:

2009-08-05

INTO THIS GMT DATE:

2009/217:00:00

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what i have so far is:

Answer 1

SimpleDateFormat dateFormatGmt = new SimpleDateFormat("dd:MM:yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    dateFormatGmt.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    System.out.println(dateFormatGmt.format(new Date())+"");

This will convert your local time to GMT.