simpledateformat parsing date with 'Z' literal

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I am trying to parse a date that looks like this:

2010-04-05T17:16:00Z

This is a valid date per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt. The 'Z' literal "imply that UTC is the preferred reference point for the specified time."

If I try to parse it using SimpleDateFormat and this pattern:

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss

It will be parsed as a Mon Apr 05 17:16:00 EDT 2010

SimpleDateFormat is unable to parse the string with these patterns:

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ

I can explicitly set the TimeZone to use on the SimpleDateFormat to get the expected output, but I don't think that should be necessary. Is there something I am missing? Is there an alternative date parser?

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