diff --git a/user/src/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.java b/user/src/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.java
index fa1032a..c77e680 100644
--- a/user/src/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.java
+++ b/user/src/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.java
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@
   private static final String WHITE_SPACE = " \t\r\n";
 
   private static final String GMT = "GMT";
+  private static final String UTC = "UTC";
 
   private static final int MINUTES_PER_HOUR = 60;
 
@@ -2224,6 +2225,11 @@
       pos[0] = start + GMT.length();
       return parseTimeZoneOffset(text, pos, cal);
     }
+    // Likewise for UTC.
+    if (text.startsWith(UTC, start)) {
+      pos[0] = start + UTC.length();
+      return parseTimeZoneOffset(text, pos, cal);
+    }
 
     // At this point, check for named time zones by looking through
     // the locale data from the DateFormatZoneData strings.
diff --git a/user/test/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat_en_Test.java b/user/test/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat_en_Test.java
index 5694748..2299435 100644
--- a/user/test/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat_en_Test.java
+++ b/user/test/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat_en_Test.java
@@ -464,6 +464,10 @@
     assertEquals("02/27/2006 05:10:10 Pacific Standard Time",
         DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss zzzz").format(date,
             usPacific));
+    
+    // test that we can reparse the formatted output
+    DateTimeFormat format = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss a z");
+    assertEquals(date, format.parse(format.format(date)));
   }
 
   public void test_timezoneZ() {