String to date :CST Dateformat. neeed

Hi ,
I have a string "Sat Jan 14 23:54:08 CST 1905" . I need to change this to a date, a GMT one. Please help. me, Had it been US,CANADA , directly i would have done, but for CST, there was no constant in Locale.java
Thanks,
Surya

Hi i got the solution
String str ="Mon Jun 25 23:51:08 CST 2009";
DateFormat dateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMMM d HH:mm:ss z yyyy");
Date d=dateFormat.parse(str)
thanks,
Surya

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