title: How to Convert a Date time value with UTC offset into GMT in java 7
body: <p>I have a date time value 2016-12-21T07:48:36 with an offset of UTC+14. How to convert the datetime into equivalent standard GMT time. </p>
  
  <p>I tried with <code>sampleDateFormat.parse()</code> method.But, I am not able to get the TimeZone object for UTC offset like. </p>
  
  <pre><code>sampleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC+14:00"))
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  <p>Please help me to convert the UTC datetime into standard GMT time in Java 7.</p>