How to assign Date parameters to Hibernate query for current timezone?

Question

When you assign a date to a named SQL parameter Hibernate automatically converts it to GMT time. How do you make it use the current server timezone for all dates?

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Answer 1

As it turned out Hibernate doesn't convert dates to GMT automatically, it just cuts off time if you use query.setDate(), so if you pass "2009-01-16 12:13:14" it becomes "2009-01-16 00:00:00".

To take time into consideration you need to use query.setTimestamp("date", dateObj) instead.