<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="postbody" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 125%; ">So, <br><br>if the default timezone for my vm is say CST <br><br>and I parse a date that's in GMT using a SimpleDateFormat ('z') and get a Date object. That gives me a Date ie. timestamp. <br><br>If I want to store that via TimestampType to the database will it store the time in local/default timezone and not GMT? <br><br>Do I have to write my own CustomType if I do not wish it to store the time as a local time? <br><br>If I want to store the time as UTC do I have to use a Calendar in the user defined type that converts the Date to UTC?</span><span class="gensmall" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></td></tr></body></html>