Grails saves datetime as UTC time, but reads it as local server time?

Question

I have the following line in my Grails application to set the default timezone to UTC:

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone(\"UTC\"))

I

Answer 1

in Bootstrap.groovy

 TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"))

on JAVA_OPTS.

-Duser.timezone=UTC

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