It seems JST time is serialized as UTC.
$sbt console
scala>importorg.joda.time._importorg.joda.time._
scala>importcodecheck.github.models._importcodecheck.github.models._
scala>vald=DateTime.now
d: org.joda.time.DateTime=2015-05-25T19:47:03.309+09:00
scala>valinput=IssueListOption(since=Some(d))
input: codecheck.github.models.IssueListOption=IssueListOption(assigned,open,List(),created,desc,Some(2015-05-25T19:47:03.309+09:00))
scala> input.q
res1:String=?filter=assigned&state=open&sort=created&direction=desc&since=2015-05-25T19:47:03Z
It seems JST time is serialized as UTC.