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

In my case, it was a test environment and I had to make an existing application to work without any configuration changes, and if possible without any MySQL config changes. I was able to fix the issue by following @vinnyjames suggestion and changing server timezone to UTC:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
service mysqld restart

Doing that was enough for me to solve the issue.