java.sql.SQLException: The server time zone value is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone
Have to add "serverTimezone" parameter to connect url.
jdbc:mysql://localhost/db? useUnicode=true& useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift= true&useLegacyDatetimeCode= false&serverTimezone=UTC
Apparently, to get version 5.1.33 of MySQL JDBC driver to work with UTC time zone, one has to specify the serverTimezone explicitly in the connection string