This must be something that everybody implements at some point: I need to store all my datetimes in the database in UTC format. For some reason, Hibernate (within JBoss 4.0.5) appears to be taking by java.util.Date's, which are in UTC, and converting them to local time before storing in the database. How do we get around this? I've searched everywhere, read the book, etc. Thanks for any help, -Marc