title: How to set timezone to UTC in Play Framework 2.0 for both production and tests?
body: <p>We'd like our Play Framework 2.0 Scala applications to handle all date and time information in UTC, both in the app servers and in MySQL database servers.</p>
  
  <p>The trick is:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Without changing deployment environment</li>
  <li>Without changing CI (testing) environment</li>
  <li>Without changing local (dev) environment</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Is there a standard best practice to do this? We want the tests to run in UTC, without having to pass <code>-Duser.timezone=GMT</code> on all commandlines. Ditto for bringing up servers with <code>play start</code>.</p>