diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 989f483794ab32527f15ec9c3090204619bba771..236a31297110b3c7d5acf2362ad1025121ddccb1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>mysql</groupId>
       <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-      <version>6.0.6</version>
+       <version>8.0.19</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.xerial</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseConnectionPool.java b/src/main/java/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseConnectionPool.java
index 9700daf3a99b30e42baf8580f863998d7efe67a1..86918e37c279f4ab5decb9c59c5311e1747f1a0f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseConnectionPool.java
+++ b/src/main/java/caosdb/server/database/backend/implementation/MySQL/DatabaseConnectionPool.java
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ class DatabaseConnectionPool {
             + CaosDBServer.getServerProperty(ServerProperties.KEY_MYSQL_PORT)
             + "/"
             + CaosDBServer.getServerProperty(ServerProperties.KEY_MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME)
-            + "?noAccessToProcedureBodies=true&cacheCallableStmts=true&autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&connectionCollation=utf8_unicode_ci&characterSetResults=utf8&serverTimezone=CET";
+            + "?noAccessToProcedureBodies=true&autoReconnect=true&serverTimezone=UTC&characterEncoding=UTF-8";
+    //            +
+    // "?noAccessToProcedureBodies=true&cacheCallableStmts=true&autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&connectionCollation=utf8_unicode_ci&characterSetResults=utf8&serverTimezone=CET";
     // + "?profileSQL=true&characterSetResults=utf8";
     final String user = CaosDBServer.getServerProperty(ServerProperties.KEY_MYSQL_USER_NAME);
     final String pwd = CaosDBServer.getServerProperty(ServerProperties.KEY_MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD);