diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecision.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecision.java
index d57e7fef2..ddce96da7 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecision.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecision.java
@@ -7,16 +7,21 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
+import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
 
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.datatypes.xsd.XSDDatatype;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Literal;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ModelFactory;
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ResourceFactory;
 
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.FreemarkerHttpServlet;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VitroVocabulary;
@@ -293,26 +298,16 @@ public class DateTimeWithPrecision extends BaseEditElement {
             minute = 0;
         Integer second = parseToInt(fieldName+"-second", queryParameters);
         if( second == null )
-            second = 0;
-        int mills = 0;
-        
+            second = 0;                
         
         DateTime value = new DateTime(
                 year.intValue(),month.intValue(),day.intValue(),
-                hour.intValue(),minute.intValue(),second.intValue(),mills);
-        
-        Date dValue = value.toDate();
-        
-        /*This isn't doing what I want it to do.  It is recording the correct instance of timeb
-         * but it is recording it with the timezone UTC/zulu */          
-        //return ResourceFactory.createTypedLiteral(ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis().print(value),XSDDatatype.XSDdateTime);
-         
-        Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
-        c.setTime(value.toDate());        
-        
-        Model m = ModelFactory.createDefaultModel();
-        Literal lit = m.createTypedLiteral( c );  
-        return lit;
+                hour.intValue(),minute.intValue(),second.intValue(),0/*millis*/
+        );
+                
+        return ResourceFactory.createTypedLiteral(
+                ISODateTimeFormat.dateHourMinuteSecond().print(value), /*does not include timezone*/
+                XSDDatatype.XSDdateTime);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecisionTest.java b/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecisionTest.java
index 5f136805b..def105b0c 100644
--- a/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecisionTest.java
+++ b/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/edit/elements/DateTimeWithPrecisionTest.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.TimeZone;
 
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -46,7 +47,14 @@ public class DateTimeWithPrecisionTest {
         for( String zoneId : allZones ){
             Object v[] = new Object[1];
             v[0] = TimeZone.getTimeZone(zoneId);
-            data.add(v);
+            try{
+                DateTimeZone dtz = DateTimeZone.forID(zoneId);
+                if( dtz != null ){
+                    data.add(v);    
+                }
+            }catch(IllegalArgumentException ex){
+                //cannot convert to joda datetimezone.
+            }            
         }
         return data;
     }
@@ -104,8 +112,7 @@ public class DateTimeWithPrecisionTest {
         String precisionURI = null;        
         precisionURI = dtwp.getSubmittedPrecision( queryParameters);
         
-        Assert.assertNotNull(precisionURI);
-        //Assert.assertEquals(dtwp.PRECISIONS[6], precisionURI);        
+        Assert.assertNotNull(precisionURI);        
         Assert.assertEquals(VitroVocabulary.Precision.SECOND.uri(), precisionURI);
     }
     
@@ -300,13 +307,15 @@ public class DateTimeWithPrecisionTest {
         Assert.assertNotNull(date);        
         Assert.assertEquals( XSDDatatype.XSDdateTime.getURI() ,date.getDatatypeURI() );
         
-        DateTime result = new DateTime( date.getLexicalForm() );
-        DateTime expected = new DateTime(1999,1,1,0,0,0,0);
-        Assert.assertEquals(expected, result);
-        
         Object obj = date.getValue();
         Assert.assertNotNull(obj);
-        Assert.assertEquals(XSDDateTime.class, obj.getClass());        
+        Assert.assertEquals(XSDDateTime.class, obj.getClass());
+        
+        DateTime result = new DateTime( date.getLexicalForm());
+        DateTime expected = new DateTime(1999,1,1,0,0,0,0 );
+        Assert.assertEquals(expected.toInstant() , result.toInstant());
+        
+        Assert.assertEquals("1999-01-01T00:00:00" , date.getLexicalForm() );                        
     }