Joda Time to JDBC - Working, but slow

JodaToJdbc2.java

private Calendar utc() {
  return Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
}

public LocalDateTime getValue(ResultSet rs, int index) throws SQLException {
  Timestamp ts = rs.getTimestamp(index, utc());
  return ts != null ? new LocalDateTime(ts.getTime(), DateTimeZone.UTC) : null;
}

public void setValue(PreparedStatement st, int index, LocalDateTime value) throws SQLException {
  DateTime dt = value.toDateTime(DateTimeZone.UTC);
  st.setTimestamp(index, new Timestamp(dt.getMillis()), utc());
}