Formatting Timestamps in Java

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Published on 2008-09-24T19:06:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 15:33 UTC
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Is there a way to format a UTC time into any arbitrary string format I want in java? Basically I was thinking of having some class take the timestamp and I pass it is string telling it how I want it formated, and it returns the formatted string for me. Is there a way to do this?

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