diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fafa0e7e8a48437de069590d10dfa7f2d1e9d6d6..107cb0bca2f1a1511cdb2a112583f797f1194350 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,18 @@
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<!-- override sping-data-jpa hibernate (5.0.12)
+		it is too old and does not correctly use java8 time
+		5.2.12 fixes this
+
+		 remove when updating spring-boot (to 2.0)
+		   -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
+			<version>5.2.12.Final</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<!-- DataSources -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>mysql</groupId>