diff --git a/jackson/pom.xml b/jackson/pom.xml
index 247bab72b0..6196f0e0c6 100644
--- a/jackson/pom.xml
+++ b/jackson/pom.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,18 @@
 			<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
 			<version>${jackson.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+		
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
+		    <version>2.4.0</version>
+		</dependency>
+		
+		<dependency>
+		  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+		  <artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
+		  <version>2.4.0</version>
+		</dependency>    
 
 		<dependency>
 		  <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
diff --git a/jackson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/jackson/test/JacksonDateTest.java b/jackson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/jackson/test/JacksonDateTest.java
index 42980baa18..f19de4d42f 100644
--- a/jackson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/jackson/test/JacksonDateTest.java
+++ b/jackson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/jackson/test/JacksonDateTest.java
@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@ import org.baeldung.jackson.date.EventWithJodaTime;
 import org.baeldung.jackson.date.EventWithLocalDateTime;
 import org.baeldung.jackson.date.EventWithSerializer;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.joda.JodaModule;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JSR310Module;
 
 public class JacksonDateTest {
 
@@ -140,4 +143,28 @@ public class JacksonDateTest {
         assertEquals("20-12-2014 02:30:00", df.format(event.eventDate));
     }
 
-}
+    @Test
+    public void whenSerializeJava8Date_thenCorrect() throws JsonProcessingException {
+        final LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.of(2014, 12, 20, 2, 30);
+
+        final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        mapper.registerModule(new JSR310Module());
+        mapper.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
+
+        final String result = mapper.writeValueAsString(date);
+        assertThat(result, containsString("2014-12-20T02:30"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenSerializeJodaTime_thenCorrect() throws JsonProcessingException {
+        final DateTime date = new DateTime(2014, 12, 20, 2, 30, DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/London"));
+
+        final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        mapper.registerModule(new JodaModule());
+        mapper.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
+
+        final String result = mapper.writeValueAsString(date);
+        assertThat(result, containsString("2014-12-20T02:30:00.000Z"));
+    }
+
+}
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