wmuron

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="com.montrosesoftware.dbassist.User" table="users">
        <id name="id" type="integer">
            <column name="id" />
        </id>
        <property name="name" type="string" length="100" column="name"/>
        <property name="createdAtUtc" type="timestamp" column="created_at_utc"/>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

wmuron

public class User {    
    private int id;
    private String name;
    private java.util.Date createdAtUtc;

    public User(int id, String name, java.util.Date createdAtUtc) {
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
        this.createdAtUtc = createdAtUtc;
    }

wmuron

public class ReadDateZeroWithJDBC {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
        Connection conn = setupJDBCAndConnect();

        //expected epoch unix time
        java.util.Date dateExpected = new java.util.Date(0);

        //actual created_at_utc from the user record in DB
        PreparedStatement stmtRead = createSelectStatement(conn, 1);
        ResultSet rs = stmtRead.executeQuery();