title: Parsing date to remove timezone
body: <p>I use the following <strong>SimpleDateFormat</strong> to parse a string,</p>
  
  <pre><code> SimpleDateFormat ft= new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy");
   String notimeZone = ft.format(startDateTime);
   Date date = ft.parse(notimeZone);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>startDateTime</strong> is Date object with value in format "Thu Mar 06 12:27:55 IST 2014".</p>
  
  <p>in <strong>notimeZone</strong> variable i get, Thu Mar 06 12:27:55 2014</p>
  
  <p>I am expecting output in variable <strong>date</strong> as, Thu Mar 06 12:27:55 2014</p>
  
  <p>But am getting same , Thu Mar 06 12:27:55 IST 2014.</p>
  
  <p>How to remove the time zone from the date object.</p>
  
  <p>Please help.</p>