diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 557544b1..dd81f8e0 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ lazy val `finagle-postgres-integration` = project
 
 lazy val test9 = integrationTests("9.6.17")
 lazy val test10 = integrationTests("10.11.0") // 10.12.0 fails to find libz for some reason
-lazy val test11 = integrationTests("11.7.0")
+lazy val test11 = integrationTests("11.6.0")
 
 def integrationTests(v: String) = {
   val majorVersion = v.split('.') match {
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ def integrationTests(v: String) = {
         "io.zonky.test.postgres" % "embedded-postgres-binaries-darwin-amd64" % v % "test",
       )
     )
+    .settings(
+      parallelExecution in Test := false,
+      javaOptions in Test += "-Duser.timezone=UTC" // TODO: investigate and submit a test to demonstrate that timezone handling is broken.
+    )
     .settings(
       Test / sourceGenerators += Def.task {
         val file = (Test / sourceManaged).value / "com" / "twitter" / "finagle" / "postgres" / "IntegrationSpec.scala"