diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index b6b4d845910..ce1955e074d 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 * SOLR-4788: Multiple Entities DIH delta import: dataimporter.[entityName].last_index_time
   is empty. (chakming wong, James Dyer via shalin)
 
+* SOLR-4978: Time is stripped from datetime column when imported into Solr date field
+  if convertType=true. (Bill Au, shalin)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/JdbcDataSource.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/JdbcDataSource.java
index b3a0e9c7cd7..41bc126d93b 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/JdbcDataSource.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/JdbcDataSource.java
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ public class JdbcDataSource extends
               result.put(colName, resultSet.getDouble(colName));
               break;
             case Types.DATE:
-              result.put(colName, resultSet.getDate(colName));
+              result.put(colName, resultSet.getTimestamp(colName));
               break;
             case Types.BOOLEAN:
               result.put(colName, resultSet.getBoolean(colName));