title: Java - Creating a Calendar without a TimeZone
body: <p>I would like to start by saying that I've read several threads similar to this one, but none of them really solved my problem.
  I would also like to state that I've tried to use <code>SimpleDateFormat</code> and <code>joda.DateTime</code> without any success.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is the following:</p>
  
  <p>I have a Calendar object that holds the information about a specific date: 2008-04-30T00:00:00Z
  When using the <code>calendar.getTime()</code> method I can get different results because I know that that method is looking for the local value</p>
  
  <p>Thus:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UK: 2008-04-30T01:00:00.000+0100
  
  US: 2008-04-30T20:00:00.000-0400
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I would like to get a Date object that holds just the Date and Time values "2008-04-30T00:00:00" ignoring completely any timezone.</p>
  
  <p>How can I do that?</p>
  
  <p>As I mentioned before I tried to use 
  <code>SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss")</code>
   but I always end up with the same results.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be really appreciated
  Cheers.</p>