Java JDBC: dates consistently two days off

Question

I am using Java JDBC to write a date to SQL server 2008 and then read it back.
The date that is read back is consistently two days earlier than the date that was actuall

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem. The 2 day offset went away as soon as I used java 6 runtime environment instead of a java 7 runtime environment.

So it is possibly also a difference between the JDBC version 4.1 backwards compatibility with JDBC 3 drivers.