title: MySQL JDBC Driver 5.1.33 - Time Zone Issue
body: <p>Some background:</p>
  <p>I have a Java 1.6 webapp running on Tomcat 7. The database is MySQL 5.5. Previously, I was using Mysql JDBC driver 5.1.23 to connect to the DB. Everything worked. I recently upgraded to Mysql JDBC driver 5.1.33. After the upgrade, Tomcat would throw this error when starting the app.</p>
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>WARNING: Unexpected exception resolving reference
  java.sql.SQLException: The server timezone value 'UTC' is unrecognized or represents
    more than one timezone. You must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via
    the serverTimezone configuration property) to use a more specifc timezone value if
    you want to utilize timezone support.
  </code></pre>
  <p>Why is this happening?</p>