java – LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime and Timestamp

I have a SpringBoot app. using Spring Initializer, built-in Tomcat, Thymeleaf model engine and package as executable JAR file.

I have a domain object with 2 properties (initDate, endDate). I want to create 2 converters to handle mySQL DB

@Convert(converter = LocalDateTimeAttributeConverter.class) 
private LocalDateTime initDate;

@Convert(converter = ZonedDateTimeAttributeConverter.class) 
private ZonedDateTime endDate;

converter 1 (it’s OK)

@Converter
public class LocalDateTimeAttributeConverter implements AttributeConverter {

    @Override
    public Timestamp convertToDatabaseColumn(LocalDateTime localDateTime) {
        return (localDateTime == null ? null : Timestamp.valueOf(localDateTime));
    }

    @Override
    public LocalDateTime convertToEntityAttribute(Timestamp sqlTimestamp) {
        return (sqlTimestamp == null ? null : sqlTimestamp.toLocalDateTime());
    }
}

This is what I want to create

@Converter
public class ZonedDateTimeAttributeConverter implements AttributeConverter {

    @Override
    public Timestamp convertToDatabaseColumn(ZonedDateTime zoneDateTime) {
        return (zoneDateTime == null ? null : Timestamp.valueOf(zoneDateTime));
    }


    @Override
    public ZonedDateTime convertToEntityAttribute(Timestamp sqlTimestamp) {
        return (sqlTimestamp == null ? null : sqlTimestamp.toZonedDateTime());
    }
}

But I can’t because I have 2 errors:

The method valueOf(String) in the type Timestamp is not applicable for the arguments (ZonedDateTime)

and TimeStamp has no method toZonedDateTime()

and if I don’t add any converter for ZonedDate, JPA creates a table with the type varbinary(255)