Calendar/Date TimeZone conversion

Hi,
I am having problems trying to print a date. I am in the West Coast of the US and I want to display a specific time in GMT format. Unfortunately, the time is being displayed in PST and I cannot understand why. Here is what I'm doing:
I have created a Calendar object and set the year, month, day, hour, minute and second set to specific values. Before I set these values, I set the TimeZone for this Calendar object to GMT.
I am using the following piece of code to format this date in order to display it
return DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.SHORT).format(date_.getTime());
date_ : this is my Calendar Object
I think when I call the getTime() method, my system converts the time in GMT format back into the local system time format (ie PST). How can I get around this problem?
I would really appreciate any help from anyone.
Cheers.

Here's what makes the difference. Instead of setting the time zone for the calendar instance try setting for the DateFormat instance. It will definetely work.
- Nirmal R.
Hi,
I am having problems trying to print a date. I am in
the West Coast of the US and I want to display a
specific time in GMT format. Unfortunately, the time
is being displayed in PST and I cannot understand why.
Here is what I'm doing:
I have created a Calendar object and set the year,
month, day, hour, minute and second set to specific
values. Before I set these values, I set the TimeZone
for this Calendar object to GMT.
I am using the following piece of code to format this
date in order to display it
return DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG,
DateFormat.SHORT).format(date_.getTime());
date_ : this is my Calendar Object
I think when I call the getTime() method, my system
converts the time in GMT format back into the local
system time format (ie PST). How can I get around this
problem?
I would really appreciate any help from anyone.
Cheers.

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