In Derby, is there a way to create a database table that has a column that defaults to the UTC timestamp?

I use Derby as a solution for whitebox testing my code. In what will become my production database, I have a column that defaults to the system timestamp in UTC. However; I cannot figure out how to do this in Derby. Is there a way to set up a column like this using Derby? I’ve googled for a good while now and haven’t found anything useful.

Answer

Derby simply does not have a concept of timezones. While I was unable to solve this without complex triggers that called java methods, I found that the solution to my real problem (unit testing) was much simpler. In my unit test, I simply asserted that my returned date was off by the difference between the default timezone and UTC rather than asserting that the dates were equal (or very close).