json - Set Jackson Timezone for Date deserialization

Question

I'm using Jackson (via Spring MVC Annotations) to deserialize a field into a java.util.Date from JSON. The POST looks like - {"enrollDate":"2011-09-28T00:00:00.000Z"}, but when the Object is created by Spring & Jackson it sets the date as "2011-09-27 20:00:00".

How can I set the proper timezone in Jackson? Or if that is not the problem, how do I send EST from the JSON message?

Javascript/jQuery:

var personDataView = { enrollDate : new Date($("#enrollDate").val()), 
                       //...other members
                      };


$.postJSON('/some/path/', personDataView, function(data){
    //... handle the response here

});

JSON Message:

{"enrollDate":"2011-09-28T00:00:00.000Z"}

Spring Controller:

@RequestMapping(value="/", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody String saveProfile(@RequestBody personDataView persondataView, HttpServletRequest request)
{
        //...dataView has a java.util.Date enrollDate field
        //...other code
}

Answer 1

In Jackson 2+, you can also use the @JsonFormat annotation:

@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", timezone="America/Phoenix")
private Date date;

If it doesn't work this way then try wrapping Z with single quotes, i.e. pattern="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"