title: How to stop jackson from writing dates as timestamp in SpringMVC
body: <p>I have been going through a tutorial on Spring boot and there I learnt how to stop jackson from converting dates to <strong>timestamp</strong>. eg :</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"birthDate":1505736233603} //before
  {"birthDate":"2017-09-18T12:04:27.345+0000"}//after
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>by writing </p>
  
  <pre><code> spring.jackson.serialization.write-dates-as-timestamps=false
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in <strong>application.properties.</strong></p>
  
  <p>How do I do the same for SpringMVC, ofcourse there is no <strong>application.properties</strong> in <strong>SpringMVC</strong></p>