Problems with Calendar and SimpleDateFormat when using UTC time zone

[Innar Made]

Setting Calendar time zone to UTC causes weird problems. Please see sample below:

    //First we make a calendar instance and assign UTC time zone
    TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone);

    //Now we take current time from calendar and print it out
    //CURRENT TIME WAS 14.55
    Date time1 = cal.getTime();
    System.out.println(time1); // prints out: Tue May 12 14:55:29 EEST 2009 - MAKES SENSE

    //Now we make date formatter and also assign same time zone to it
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d h:mma yyyy");
    formatter.setTimeZone(timeZone);

    //Now we print out using date formatter
    System.out.println(formatter.format(time1)); // prints out Tue May 12 11:55AM 2009, NOTICE TIME IS 11.55AM ! DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

    cal.set(2009, Calendar.MAY, 12, 14, 55);
    Date time2 = cal.getTime();
    System.out.println(time2); // prints out: Tue May 12 17:55:36 EEST 2009, DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
    System.out.println(formatter.format(time2)); // prints out: Tue May 12 2:55PM 2009, MAKES SENSE

This the output doesn't make sense to me at all.
In first sysout the time is correct. In second sysout using SimpleDateFormatter time is changed to 11.55 AM, that is just outright weird.
Int third sysout time goes to 17.55 PM, which is again unexpected. And finally using SImpleDateFormat again, it prints out expected time.

Any comments or explanations why this happens are warmly welcomed

My technical stats:
OS - Ubuntu 8.04
Java - 1.6.0_07

[jittu goud]

  TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");  
    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone);

by the above statement ...the time field of the calculator object never gets changed......but infact the other fields with in the calculator gets initialized ...the otherfileds like dstSavings , useDaysavings etc....

to check this you can actually print the 'cal' object using print statement ...

System.out.println(cal);     

or you can compare two object outputs....like below

  import java.util.*;
    import java.text.*;    
    public class Test {  
      
        public static void main(String [] arg){   
 
 Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));  
 System.out.println("/n"+cal1); 
 System.out.println("                   --------------------------                           ");  
 System.out.println(cal1.getTime());  
 System.out.println("                   --------------------------                           ");  
     Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("NZ-CHAT"));  
 System.out.println("                   --------------------------                           ");  
 System.out.println("/n"+cal2);  
 System.out.println("                   --------------------------                           ");      
 System.out.println(cal2.getTime());
        
       }  
   }    

if you run above...the time field would show same time (with few millisecond gap for comiler) for both the instaces like GMT and NZ-CHAT...but the other fileds of the object differ..

 Date time1 = cal.getTime();  

the above statement just gets the time field out of the cal object... with out any effect of timezone field..

  SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM d h:mma yyyy");  
      formatter.setTimeZone(timeZone);  
    
 
    System.out.println(formatter.format(time1));  

in the above line time1 would be still same.....but when it formats it makes use of timezone to amend it and print the localized time....for the timezone mentioned

[Innar Made]

Thank you jittu gound for clearing that up!