Para mostrar un escenario reproducible, estoy haciendo lo siguiente

Obtener la hora actual del sistema (hora local)

Convertir la hora local a UTC // Funciona bien hasta aquí

Invertir la hora UTC, volver a la hora local. Se siguieron 3 enfoques diferentes (enumerados a continuación), pero los 3 enfoques conservan el tiempo solo en UTC.

{

long ts = System.currentTimeMillis();
Date localTime = new Date(ts);
String format = "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat (format);

// Convert Local Time to UTC (Works Fine) 
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date gmtTime = new Date(sdf.format(localTime));
System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --> UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime());

// Reverse Convert UTC Time to Locale time (Doesn't work) Approach 1
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());        
localTime = new Date(sdf.format(gmtTime));
System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --> UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime());

// Reverse Convert UTC Time to Locale time (Doesn't work) Approach 2 using DateFormat
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat (format);
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
localTime = df.parse((df.format(gmtTime)));
System.out.println("Local:" + localTime.toString() + "," + localTime.getTime() + " --> UTC time:" + gmtTime.toString() + "-" + gmtTime.getTime());

// Approach 3
Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getDefault());
c.setTimeInMillis(gmtTime.getTime());
System.out.println("Local Time " + c.toString());

}