The new native support for JSR-310 is great, but a feature that's missing is the ability to specify the timezone of the database.

Currently my database has implicit date times in UTC. No zoned data is appended to the end of the string (e.g. "2013-10-14 04:00:00").

When Hibernate reads this as a ZonedDateTime, it incorrectly reads it in as EST, as that is the TimeZone of the JVM.

It would be nice to be able to specify the TimeZone of a field by an annotation perhaps.