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