Adding an answer that's completely based on and indebted to divestoclimb with a hint from Shaun Stone. Just wanted to spell it out in detail since it's a common problem and the solution is a bit confusing.
This is using Hibernate 4.1.4.Final, though I suspect anything after 3.6 will work.
First, create divestoclimb's UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor
public class UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor extends TimestampTypeDescriptor {
public static final UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor INSTANCE = new UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor();
private static final TimeZone UTC = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
public <X> ValueBinder<X> getBinder(final JavaTypeDescriptor<X> javaTypeDescriptor) {
return new BasicBinder<X>( javaTypeDescriptor, this ) {
@Override
protected void doBind(PreparedStatement st, X value, int index, WrapperOptions options) throws SQLException {
st.setTimestamp( index, javaTypeDescriptor.unwrap( value, Timestamp.class, options ), Calendar.getInstance(UTC) );
}
};
}
public <X> ValueExtractor<X> getExtractor(final JavaTypeDescriptor<X> javaTypeDescriptor) {
return new BasicExtractor<X>( javaTypeDescriptor, this ) {
@Override
protected X doExtract(ResultSet rs, String name, WrapperOptions options) throws SQLException {
return javaTypeDescriptor.wrap( rs.getTimestamp( name, Calendar.getInstance(UTC) ), options );
}
};
}
}
Then create UtcTimestampType, which uses UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor instead of TimestampTypeDescriptor as the SqlTypeDescriptor in the super constructor call but otherwise delegates everything to TimestampType:
public class UtcTimestampType
extends AbstractSingleColumnStandardBasicType<Date>
implements VersionType<Date>, LiteralType<Date> {
public static final UtcTimestampType INSTANCE = new UtcTimestampType();
public UtcTimestampType() {
super( UtcTimestampTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE, JdbcTimestampTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE );
}
public String getName() {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.getName();
}
@Override
public String[] getRegistrationKeys() {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.getRegistrationKeys();
}
public Date next(Date current, SessionImplementor session) {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.next(current, session);
}
public Date seed(SessionImplementor session) {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.seed(session);
}
public Comparator<Date> getComparator() {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.getComparator();
}
public String objectToSQLString(Date value, Dialect dialect) throws Exception {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.objectToSQLString(value, dialect);
}
public Date fromStringValue(String xml) throws HibernateException {
return TimestampType.INSTANCE.fromStringValue(xml);
}
}
Finally, when you initialize your Hibernate configuration, register UtcTimestampType as a type override:
configuration.registerTypeOverride(new UtcTimestampType());
Now timestamps shouldn't be concerned with the JVM's time zone on their way to and from the database. HTH.
