Setting and formatting time zone with Calendar object in Java and then returning a Date object

I have a function where I need to grab the current date, set to another time zone, and return that converted/formatted date as a Date object. I have code that works, however, the Date object does not set to the newly converted date, it returns the current date.

Here is the code:

public static Date getCurrentLocalDateTime() {

    Calendar currentdate = Calendar.getInstance();
    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
    TimeZone obj = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Denver");
    formatter.setTimeZone(obj);

    Logger.info("Local:: " + currentdate.getTime());

    String formattedDate = formatter.format(currentdate.getTime());

    Logger.info("America/Denver:: "+ formattedDate);

    Date finalDate = null;
    try {
        finalDate = formatter.parse(formattedDate);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    Logger.info("finalDate:: " + finalDate);

    return finalDate;
}

From the examples I have reviewed and tried, this should work correctly. One of the issues is that I need to return the Date object so it works with the current code.

The output looks like:

2017-07-03 17:08:24,499 [INFO] from application in application-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-3 -
                Local:: Mon Jul 03 17:08:24 UTC 2017
2017-07-03 17:08:24,501 [INFO] from application in application-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-3 -
                America/Denver:: 2017-07-03 11:08:24
2017-07-03 17:08:24,502 [INFO] from application in application-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-3 -
                finalDate:: Mon Jul 03 17:08:24 UTC 2017

As you can see, it formats the date correctly to the Mountain Time Zone, but then sets it back to the Calendar time.

EDIT --- Code solution:

public static Date getCurrentLocalDateTime() {
    Calendar currentdate = Calendar.getInstance();
    ZonedDateTime converted = currentdate.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.of("America/Denver"))
            .withZoneSameLocal(ZoneOffset.UTC);
    Date finalDate = Date.from(converted.toInstant());
    return finalDate;
}