How to make default time zone apply in Spring Boot Jackson Date serialization

Question

I have configured my Spring Boot application to serialize dates as ISO8601 strings:

spring:   jackson:     serialization:       write-dates-as-timestamps: false 

This is what I am getting:

"someDate": "2017-09-11T07:53:27.000+0000" 

However my time zone is Europe/Madrid. In fact if I print TimeZone.getDefault() that's what I get.

How can I make Jackson serialize those datetime values using the actual timezone? GMT+2

"someDate": "2017-09-11T09:53:27.000+0200" 

Answer 1

I found myself with the same problem. In my case, I have only one timezone for my app, then adding:

spring.jackson.time-zone: America/Sao_Paulo 

in my application.properties solved the problem.

Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html#JACKSON

Answer 2

Solved registering a Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer bean:

@Bean public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer jacksonObjectMapperCustomization() {     return jacksonObjectMapperBuilder ->          jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.timeZone(TimeZone.getDefault()); }