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Asked: 2026-06-07T13:12:22+00:00

I am using Java JDBC to write a date to SQL server 2008 and

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I am using Java JDBC to write a date to SQL server 2008 and then read it back.
The date that is read back is consistently two days earlier than the date that was actually written.

I am inserting the row containing the Date field with a prepared statement. The date value is provided by:

java.sql.Date todaysDate = new java.sql.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) ;
System.out.println(todaysDate.toString()) // -> 2012-07-02
ps.setDate(8, todaysDate);

After writing the date to the DB, SQL server shows me the correct date if I run:

select date from table_name where date!=null // ->2012-07-02

If I run the same query via JDBC then retrieve the date value from the resultset using 

java.sql.Date sqlDate = rs.getDate("date") ;
sqlDate.toString() // ->2012-06-30

The inserted row is the only row in the table with a non-null date so this does not appear to be a case of reading the wrong record.

I thought this would be a well known problem but the only reference I could find by a Google search for a “two days off” issue had no definitive answer.

Any ideas?

beeky (living in the past)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Faulty JDBC Driver

    It turns out the problem was the MS JDBC driver. I tried every possible combination of date types and date conversions and nothing worked. After a great deal of searching (should have done that first!) I saw a comment on an older SO entry that implied the problem was the version 3 JDBC driver from Microsoft. I got the latest driver, version 4.something, and the problem went away.

    Thanks to all that tried to help. Special thanks to you Mike for taking the time to post a solution.

    -=beeky

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