title: Is SimpleDateFormat parse - Daylight Saving Time Aware?
body: <p>I would like to know if the following is DST aware ie., the SimpleDateFormat parse method is DST aware if we set the Timezone of that respective country.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat();
  sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("CET")); //Germany
  String currentDate = sdf.format((new Date()).getTime());
  currentDate = sdf.parse(currentDate);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I undserstand that "CET", "MST", "EST" etc are three letter codes and is not encouraged to use this, but irrespective of this is the dateformat parse DST aware ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>