Configure Spring REST endpoint to ignore appending timezone when serializing date fields in response objects

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I have an endpoint in my spring boot application that returns date ranges. The backend is PostgreSQL and date columns in my database are defined as without timezone

I would like my endpoint in my spring boot application return the dates as is.

Currently, the dates get serialized with the timezone for the spring boot server.

Is there a way to configure my spring boot application to selectively ignore appending timezone data to the dates when serializing them?

the entity class is as below

public class Period{
   private Date startdate;
   private Date enddate;
}

Can you post the Entity where the date columns are used? – Sebastian Aug 26 '19 at 07:39 — Sebastian, Aug 26 '19 at 07:39
hi @Sebastian, I have included the Entity in the question – mekbib.awoke Aug 26 '19 at 07:45 — mekbib.awoke, Aug 26 '19 at 07:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 26 '19 at 09:08

You can use more modern java.time package, rather than outdated java.util.Date.

In your case, you can use LocalDate (or LocalDateTime). It does not contain any information about time-zone nor offset, and by default it is serialized to ISO 8601 format like 2019-12-31T23:59:59.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 26 '19 at 08:33

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I have just found a similar post with an elegant solution here

just adding the desired timezone as below to you application.properties file will do solve it

spring.jackson.time-zone= America/Sao_Paulo

answered Aug 26 '19 at 08:33

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Configure Spring REST endpoint to ignore appending timezone when serializing date fields in response objects

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