title: Java String to Date Conversion throws Unparseable date
body: <p>I'm trying to convert following text to Date but not able to get it to parse correctly.</p>
  
  <pre><code>String strDate = "Tue Mar 13 12:00:00 EST 2012";
  try{
      SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
      //also tried SimpleDateFormat sd = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm");
      //as well as sd.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
      Date date = sd.parse(strDate);
  }catch(Exception e)
  {
      e.printStack();
      //fails with java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Tue Mar 13 12:00:00 EST 2012"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what am i doing wrong? </p>