How can I customize the clock used by @DateCreated and @DateUpdated?

[Nahuel92]

Hi there!

My understanding is that Micronaut uses the Java app's clock to generate and inject values for both @DateCreated and @DateUpdated.

I would like to know how I can customize this clock, since in my particular situation the DB server expects timestamps to be in EST instead of UTC.

I have created a @Factory that creates a custom java.time.Clock set to EST that I inject where I need it for programmatic access. But those annotations (alongside with @Mapper from Micronaut Core) seem to be ignoring the custom clock I created via the factory.

Is there any configuration I can use to change this behavior?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[dstepanov]

I think you need something like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627992/force-java-timezone-as-gmt-utc

[Nahuel92]

Thanks dstepanov!

I had that approach in mind too, but I ended up finding that if I let the DB autogenerate those columns the problem goes away.