title: What time zone does Hibernate use when it reads and writes a Java Calendar object to an SQL TIMESTAMP?
body: <p>When <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/" rel="noreferrer">Hibernate</a> <em>writes</em> a Java <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>Calendar</code></a> object to an SQL <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-datetime.html#AEN5523" rel="noreferrer"><code>TIMESTAMP</code></a> column, to which time zone does it adjust the date, that of the computer or that specified in the calendar object (or some other)?</p>
  
  <p>When Hibernate <em>reads</em> the <code>TIMESTAMP</code> into the calendar object, to which time zone does it translate the date?</p>