MySQL JDBC Driver 5.1.33 - Time Zone Issue

Question

Some background:

I have a Java 1.6 webapp running on Tomcat 7. The database is MySQL 5.5. Previously, I was using Mysql JDBC driver 5.1.23 to connect to the DB. Ever

Answer 1

1. I added in mysql config file in section [mysqld]

   default_time_zone='+03:00'
   

2. And restart mysql server:

   sudo service mysql restart
   

Where +03:00 my UTC time zone.

Path to config file on my os ubuntu 16.04:

/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

WARNING: IF YOUR TIME ZONE HAVE SUMMER AND WINTER TIME. YOU MUST CHANGE UTC IN CONFIG IF CHANGE TIME. TWICE IN YEAR(USUALLY) OR SET CRONTAB WITH SUDO.

My url jdbc connection:

"jdbc:mysql://localhost/java"