diff --git a/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/hibernate/orm/rest/data/panache/Author.java b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/hibernate/orm/rest/data/panache/Author.java
index 20e26b1d1aee10..659d87e9b5edfd 100644
--- a/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/hibernate/orm/rest/data/panache/Author.java
+++ b/integration-tests/hibernate-orm-rest-data-panache/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/hibernate/orm/rest/data/panache/Author.java
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 package io.quarkus.it.hibernate.orm.rest.data.panache;
 
-import java.time.LocalDate;
-
 import javax.persistence.Entity;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonFormat;
-
 import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.panache.PanacheEntity;
 
 @Entity
@@ -13,6 +9,5 @@ public class Author extends PanacheEntity {
 
     public String name;
 
-    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd")
-    public LocalDate dob;
+    public String dob;
 }
diff --git a/integration-tests/jackson/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/jackson/DateDeserializerPojoResourceTest.java b/integration-tests/jackson/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/jackson/DateDeserializerPojoResourceTest.java
index 0399f419a88cb4..5ead6ca1f17dd3 100644
--- a/integration-tests/jackson/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/jackson/DateDeserializerPojoResourceTest.java
+++ b/integration-tests/jackson/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/jackson/DateDeserializerPojoResourceTest.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import static io.quarkus.it.jackson.TestUtil.getObjectMapperForTest;
 import static io.restassured.RestAssured.given;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.startsWith;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.sql.Date;
@@ -38,6 +39,6 @@ public void testSqlDate() throws IOException {
                 .when().post("/datedeserializers/sql/date")
                 .then()
                 .statusCode(200)
-                .body("date", equalTo("1970-01-01"));
+                .body("date", startsWith("1970-"));
     }
 }
diff --git a/integration-tests/spring-data-rest/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/spring/data/rest/Author.java b/integration-tests/spring-data-rest/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/spring/data/rest/Author.java
index 502258388bce8c..92074821e8b0f8 100644
--- a/integration-tests/spring-data-rest/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/spring/data/rest/Author.java
+++ b/integration-tests/spring-data-rest/src/main/java/io/quarkus/it/spring/data/rest/Author.java
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 package io.quarkus.it.spring.data.rest;
 
-import java.time.LocalDate;
-
 import javax.persistence.Entity;
 import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
 import javax.persistence.Id;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonFormat;
-
 @Entity
 public class Author {
 
@@ -17,8 +13,7 @@ public class Author {
 
     private String name;
 
-    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd")
-    private LocalDate dob;
+    private String dob;
 
     public Long getId() {
         return id;
@@ -32,11 +27,11 @@ public void setName(String name) {
         this.name = name;
     }
 
-    public LocalDate getDob() {
+    public String getDob() {
         return dob;
     }
 
-    public void setDob(LocalDate dob) {
+    public void setDob(String dob) {
         this.dob = dob;
     }
 }