How can i work out the GMT time wherever i am ?

Hi, i'm going crazy with the date/time classes, just can't seem to work it out.
I need to know the current time as a GMT time.
I need to know wherever the program is running, i myself am in Amsterdam GMT+02:00 , my server is located in Canada GMT-04:00 (?)
I parse dates from websites all over the world so i get times in the form of strings of which i know the timezone. I need to store everything in a mysql database and i want the database to contain GMT times only.
I've worked out how to get a string from its timezone into GMT but,
how can i get the current time as GMT ?
somehow i keep getting timeshifts i cannot explain.
this is where i got to:
TimeZone tz_gmt;
tz_gmt = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
SimpleDateFormat sdformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
sdformat.setTimeZone(tz_gmt);
Timestamp tsGmtnow;
tsGmtnow = Timestamp.valueOf(sdformat.format(new Date()));
Which is fine if i run it in Amsterdam, it gives me the current date/time in GMT, but on the server in Canada it gives me GMT+4 hours. What am i missing ?

found a workaround,
     TimeZone tz_gmt;
     tz_gmt = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
     TimeZone tz_can;
     tz_can = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-04:00");
     TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
     String Stz = tz.getID();
     SimpleDateFormat sdformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
     Timestamp tsGmtnow;
if ( "Europe/Berlin".compareTo(Stz) == 0) {
     // i'm in Europe, go from local time to GMT
     sdformat.setTimeZone(tz_gmt);
     tsGmtnow = Timestamp.valueOf(sdformat.format(new Date()));
} else {
     // i'm in Canada, local time IS gmt
     sdformat.setTimeZone(tz_can);
     tsGmtnow = Timestamp.valueOf(sdformat.format(new Date()));
out.println(tsGmtnow.toString());
the default timezone returns either:
Europe/Canada
GMT-04:00
somehow the GMT-04:00 get ignored by the formatter

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