hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/my_db?
serverTimezone=UTC&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&useTimezone=true

<property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">${hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer}</prop>
            <prop key="useUnicode">true</prop>
            <prop key="useLegacyDatetimeCode">false</prop>
            <prop key="serverTimezone">UTC</prop>
            <prop key="useTimezone">true</prop>
        </props>
    </property>

<dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <version>8.0.13</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
        <version>5.4.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-java8</artifactId>
        <version>5.4.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "transaction_id")
private long txId;

@Column(name = "transaction_date")
private LocalDate txDate;

@Override
public TxEntity create(TxEntity txEntity)
{
    this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save(txEntity);
    this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().flush();
    this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().refresh(txEntity);
    return txEntity;
}

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();

assertEquals(today, myRecord.getTransactionDate());