title: How can I recognize the Zulu time zone in Java DateUtils.parseDate?
body: <p>I have dates in the format <code>2008-12-23T00:00:00Z</code>. This look a lot like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601" rel="noreferrer">ISO 8601 format</a> with a Zulu (UTC) timezone. I though the following code would parse it (using <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateFormatUtils.html#ISO_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT" rel="noreferrer">commons-lang</a>) :</p>
  
  <pre><code>String pattern = DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT.getPattern();
  Date d = DateUtils.parseDate(dateToParse, new String[] { pattern });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I take the same pattern (<code>yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZ</code>) but remove the timezone, it works.</p>
  
  <p>Do you know how I can recognize the Zulu timezone ? I have access only to Java 1.4 and Jakarta commons-lang. No <a href="http://www.joda.org/joda-time/" rel="noreferrer">Joda Time</a> for me yet ...</p>