String To Calendar Time

I'm having an issue with this little bit of conversion. I'm converting a string (_dateString) into a Calendar time. I am using DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat to accomplish this task. Everything seems to be working great, except for it figuring out whether it is AM or PM. According to SimpleDateFormat (Java Platform SE 7 ) I am using "aa" to get my AM or PM marker. How come in my output then, it believes it to be 4:45 am instead of 4:45 pm? Hour of Day should return the 24 hour clock, which should show 16 instead of 4. I have posted the output below my code.

Java Code:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Time{
static String _dateString = "08 Feb 2014, 4:45pm";
public static void main(String args[]){
Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();

[Code] ....

Output:

Java Code:

Today is Sat Feb 08 04:45:00 EST 2014
Year: 2014
Month: 1
Day of Month: 8
Day of Week: 7
Week Of Year: 6
Week of Month: 2
Hour: 4
Hour of Day: 4
Minute: 45
Second: 0
Millisecond: 0 mh_sh_highlight_all('java');