Since I seem to forget how to get/convert dates from the database into Java using JDBC (I use Oracle and MySQL for different projects), a reminder:

Suppose there is a MySQL table structure like:

create table prp_models (
  prp_id        int(10) unsigned not null auto_increment,
  prp_created   datetime default null,
  prp_
)

Then a proper way to get the prp_created column from a resultset (res) is:

java.sql.Timestamp myDateTime = res.getTimestamp(2);  // res #1 is the ID

If you want to get the date time in a displayable format (String), you can use:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
return sdf.format(myDateTime.getTime());

Note on the side: within Java you can set myDateTime with system time using:
myDateTime = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());