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

I executed following on my database side.

mysql> SET @@global.time_zone = '+00:00';

mysql> SET @@session.time_zone = '+00:00';

mysql> SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone;

I am using Server version: 8.0.17 - MySQL Community Server - GPL

source: https://community.oracle.com/thread/4144569?start=0&tstart=0