I just had the same issue with Netbeans 8.2 and trying to connect to mySQL server on a Mac OS machine. The only thing that worked for me was to add the following to the url of the connection string: &serverTimezone=UTC (or if you are connecting via Hibernate.cfg.xml then escape the & as &) Not surprisingly I found the solution on this stack overflow post also:
MySQL JDBC Driver 5.1.33 - Time Zone Issue
Best Regards, Claudio