title: How to ignore timezone identifier in date parsing (Java)?
body: <p>I'm trying to parse date like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy K:mm:ss,SSS a z", Locale.ENGLISH);
  Date date = df.parse("Oct 04, 2015 2:11:58,757 AM UTC");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I'm getting a value of 5 hours am, because i live in UTC+3 timezone. But i need to have value of 2am, however, with the same format string(date string given in a specified format, which i'm not allowed to change). How to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Upd: I don't need to format the date in proper timezone, i need to COMPARE these dates by its values without timezones. I want exactly that date have parsed ignoring the timezone in original string - and be always in the same timezone (my, for example), no matter what contains original string: UTC or UTC+3 or something else.</p>