Sure thing Chris. I am work right now, but I will attempt this fix later today (before 6pm CST) and I will let you know if this solves the issue or not. If I could add one thing while waiting to attempt this fix, I will mention that my original "hibernate.connection.url" did not include the serverTimezone portion and I was getting a different error without the timezone included. I believe the specific error was along these lines:
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: The server time zone value 'Chicago, Illinois' is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone. You
must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via the serverTimezone
configuration property) to use a more specific time zone value if you want to utilize time zone support.
When I view the documentation, section 3.3 JDBC Connections, Table 3.1. Hibernate JDBC Properties lists an example as the connection URL and I don't see the timezone required..... Can you please elaborate why that error would be occurring? I appreciate it Chris.