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+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.test.timestamp;
+
+import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.Statement;
+import java.sql.Time;
+import java.time.LocalTime;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+
+import org.hibernate.cfg.AvailableSettings;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.DialectChecks;
+import org.hibernate.testing.RequiresDialectFeature;
+import org.hibernate.testing.SkipForDialect;
+import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
+import org.hibernate.testing.junit4.BaseNonConfigCoreFunctionalTestCase;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
+
+import static org.hibernate.testing.transaction.TransactionUtil.doInHibernate;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * @author Vlad Mihalcea
+ */
+@RequiresDialectFeature(DialectChecks.SupportsJdbcDriverProxying.class)
+@TestForIssue(jiraKey = "HHH-12988")
+@SkipForDialect(MySQL5Dialect.class)
+public class JdbcTimestampDSTWithUTCTest
+		extends BaseNonConfigCoreFunctionalTestCase {
+
+	protected final Logger log = Logger.getLogger( getClass() );
+
+	@Override
+	protected Class<?>[] getAnnotatedClasses() {
+		return new Class<?>[] {
+				Person.class
+		};
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected void addSettings(Map settings) {
+		settings.put(
+				AvailableSettings.JDBC_TIME_ZONE,
+				"UTC"
+		);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected boolean isCleanupTestDataRequired() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testHibernate() {
+		doInHibernate( this::sessionFactory, session -> {
+			Person person = new Person();
+
+			person.setId( 1L );
+			person.setShiftStartTime( LocalTime.of( 12, 0, 0 ) );
+
+			session.persist( person );
+		} );
+
+		doInHibernate( this::sessionFactory, session -> {
+			Person person = session.find( Person.class, 1L );
+
+			assertEquals( LocalTime.of( 12, 0, 0 ), person.getShiftStartTime() );
+		} );
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testJDBC() {
+		doInHibernate( this::sessionFactory, session -> {
+			session.doWork( connection -> {
+
+				Time time = Time.valueOf( LocalTime.of( 12, 0, 0 ) );
+
+				try (PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(
+						"INSERT INTO Person (id, shiftStartTime) VALUES (?, ?)" )) {
+					ps.setLong( 1, 1L );
+					ps.setTime( 2, time, new GregorianCalendar( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "UTC" ) ) );
+
+					ps.executeUpdate();
+				}
+
+				try (Statement st = connection.createStatement()) {
+					try (ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery( "SELECT shiftStartTime FROM Person WHERE id = 1" )) {
+						while ( rs.next() ) {
+							Time dbTime = rs.getTime( 1, new GregorianCalendar( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "UTC" ) ) );
+
+							assertEquals( time, dbTime );
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			} );
+		} );
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testDBTimeValueAsEpochDST() {
+		doInHibernate( this::sessionFactory, session -> {
+			session.doWork( connection -> {
+
+				Time time = Time.valueOf( LocalTime.of( 12, 0, 0 ) );
+
+				GregorianCalendar utcCalendar = new GregorianCalendar( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "UTC" ) );
+				utcCalendar.setTimeInMillis( time.getTime() );
+				LocalTime utcLocalTime = utcCalendar.toZonedDateTime().toLocalTime();
+				Time utcTime = Time.valueOf( utcLocalTime );
+
+				try (PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(
+						"INSERT INTO Person (id, shiftStartTime) VALUES (?, ?)" )) {
+					ps.setLong( 1, 1L );
+					ps.setTime( 2, time, new GregorianCalendar( TimeZone.getTimeZone( "UTC" ) ) );
+
+					ps.executeUpdate();
+				}
+
+				try (Statement st = connection.createStatement()) {
+					try (ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery( "SELECT shiftStartTime FROM Person WHERE id = 1" )) {
+						while ( rs.next() ) {
+							Time dbTime = rs.getTime( 1 );
+
+							assertEquals( utcTime, dbTime );
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			} );
+		} );
+	}
+
+	@Entity(name = "Person")
+	public static class Person {
+
+		@Id
+		private Long id;
+
+		private LocalTime shiftStartTime;
+
+		public Long getId() {
+			return id;
+		}
+
+		public void setId(Long id) {
+			this.id = id;
+		}
+
+		public LocalTime getShiftStartTime() {
+			return shiftStartTime;
+		}
+
+		public void setShiftStartTime(LocalTime shiftStartTime) {
+			this.shiftStartTime = shiftStartTime;
+		}
+	}
+}
+