In Jackson 2.8.x I had a unit test that parsed the following and expected an exception.

{
  "date": 123,
  "message": "Happy New Year!"
}

As of 2.9 related to this commit https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8/pull/22/files#diff-a1552641fab3c9690f2c8b0f5ee2fe89R102 it now parses as 1970-05-04

Is there a way to turn this off if I expect my dates to come in as a different format? I don't want to parse random integers as dates when it should be invalid input.