Let's put a string date to a Zulu Date

public class USPacificZuluDate

{

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception

{

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.S'Z");

sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

System.out.println(sdf.format(currentDate));

Date parsedDate = sdf.parse("1970-01-01T00:00:00.0UTC");

System.out.println(sdf.format(parsedDate));

}

}