title: Removing time zone from Joda DateTime object
body: <pre><code>DateTimeFormatter df = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
  DateTime temp = df.withOffserParsed().parseDateTime("1970-01-02T00:00:00");
  Date date = temp.toDate();
  DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(date);
  long epoch_start_date = dateTime.getMillis();
  System.out.println(dateTime);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This prints out 1970-01-02T00:00:00.000+12:00</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to remove the Time Zone (+12:00 bit) from the dateTime object? It results in the resultant time being 2 Jan 1970 12:00pm rather than the desired 2 Jan 1970 12:00 am.</p>