Java JDBC: dates consistently two days off

Question

I am using Java JDBC to write a date to SQL server 2008 and then read it back.
The date that is read back is consistently two days earlier than the date that was actuall

Answer 1

Your problem is Time Zone values ("GMT").
You need to introduce this manipulation in your JDBC fetching method as follows:

Calendar gmt = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
PreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
stmt.setDate(1, new Date(0)); // I assume this is always GMT
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();
rs.next();

//This will output 0 as expected
System.out.println(rs.getDate(1, gmt).getTime());

Answer 2

This issues is coming when we are using date DataType in Microsoft sql. I have fixed this to change date to datetime.

Answer 3

If you are using MSSQL 2015, use this Sqljdbc41 to fix this issue

 <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.sqlserver/sqljdbc41 -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>sqljdbc41</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.8112</version>
</dependency>