 <p>This behaviour of Joda Time Contrib is fixed in my project Usertype for Joda Time and JSR310. See <a href="http://usertype.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://usertype.sourceforge.net/</a> which is practically otherwise a drop in replacement for JodaTime Hibernate.</p> <p>I have written about this issue: <a href="http://blog.jadira.co.uk/blog/2010/5/1/javasqldate-types-and-the-offsetting-problem.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.jadira.co.uk/blog/2010/5/1/javasqldate-types-and-the-offsetting-problem.html</a></p> <p>Hope this helps,</p> <p>Chris</p>