Java SimpleDateFormat unexpected parsing behaviour

I'm reading information from a file (.csv) that will be inserted to a database after validation and approval from the end user. The text file is read, validated and its information loaded to a List containing forms which are used to check if the data already exist in database.

The problem arises when parsing the String to Date. The SimpleDateFormat.parse() method returns an unexpected date format even when the pattern for SimpleDateFormat is "yyyy-MM-dd".

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
dateFormat.setLenient(false);

Parsing the loaded values to the travel object:

travel.setDate( dateFormat.parse( form.getTravelDate() ));

In debugger the form shows the date as:

"2012-12-12"

It is read as intended. However when parsed becomes:

Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 CST 2012

I've spent the whole day trying to solve this but I'm out of ideas at this point. Afaik the pattern is alright and I've tried adding a locale to no avail.

Edit: the problem is when I need to insert the values to the database using Hibernate. The not desired format also ends up showing in the Database.

The data is show in a .jsp page using

 HttpServletRequest("table",travelList);

The date format I don't need shows here, when in the past this issue never happened. At last the information is sent to the database where the problem persists.