Hibernate force timestamp to persist/load as UTC [duplicate]

Answer 1

For MySQL only, an alternative to implementing custom Hibernate types is to add the following JDBC options to your JDBC connection URL:

useTimezone=true
serverTimezone=UTC

This will force your JDBC connection into the UTC timezone and ask MySQL to perform conversions from the JVM timezone. The net effect is that you can keep a local timezone on your JVM (e.g. for printing out log messages and so forth), while DATETIME columns will be persisted as UTC.

For example:

    
        
            
            com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
            jdbc:mysql://hostname/databaseName?useTimezone=true&serverTimezone=UTC
            ...