New to Java

Hey,

I'm curious at formatting a date time a certain way. I'm working with XMLBeans and have a node with datatype DateTime. According to the article:

http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_dtypes_date.asp

The section under "DateTime Data Type" specifies that:

Time Zones
To specify a time zone, you can either enter a dateTime in UTC time by adding a "Z" behind the time - like this:

<startdate>2002-05-30T09:30:10Z</startdate>

or you can specify an offset from the UTC time by adding a positive or negative time behind the time - like this:

<startdate>2002-05-30T09:30:10-06:00</startdate>

or

<startdate>2002-05-30T09:30:10+06:00</startdate>


I'm working on a PC which is currently has the Windows Time Zone: (UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Libson, London

How would I set the value of a node to be of the format as UTC offset (2002-05-30T09:30:10-06:00). I assume that since my PC is already on GMT, the date would be formatted as the 1st startDate (2002-05-30T09:30:10Z) ?

Also, if my PC was at (UTC -5:00) Eastern Time, how would I get that to be formatted like the bold date time?

Is there a single date formatter to handle either of these cases? Never really used the Java classes for date time manipulation.

Thanks