i am trying to put datetimes in with exposed.. .. my local timezone is

Europe/Berlin

so i tried converting them like so

ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeParser().parseDateTime(dateString).withZone(DateTimeZone.UTC)

and logging shows me the field should be

2020-03-18T16:17:00.000Z

but when i look into the database i see

2020-03-18 17:17:00

this looks almost as if exposed converts to the local timezone and then discards the timezone info (or

DATETIME

has no timezone info?) how can i make sure i save stuff as

UTC

always ?

Set the TimeZone default to UTC first thing in your main method