Github user prasanthj commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/220#discussion_r171072157 --- Diff: java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/TreeReaderFactory.java --- @@ -49,6 +50,15 @@ * Factory for creating ORC tree readers. */ public class TreeReaderFactory { + // The current JDK has a bug where values of the form: + // YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.000X is off by a second for dates before 1970. --- End diff -- Can you please link the BUG # for future reference (can be done on commit)? Also can we run the tests against JDK version with the bug on travis CI to trigger TIMSTAMP_BUG == true code path? The logic for adjusting millis look good to me.
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