SQL solution for my JDBC timezone issue

Anyone have a suggestion for setting the timezone back to the Postgres db default on a connection.  JDBC now sets the timezone to be the client which is my web server and ignores the default timezone that I have set in the DB.  There are large parts of my code that I have never worried about timezones because the DB would handle it.  Before I head down that path, I thought I would check and see if there was an easier way for me to put it back into the database.