Github user omalley commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/220#discussion_r171132343
--- 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.
+ public static final boolean TIMESTAMP_BUG;
+ static {
+ Timestamp ts1 = Timestamp.valueOf("1969-12-25 12:34:56.0001");
+ Timestamp ts2 = Timestamp.valueOf("1969-12-25 12:34:56.0011");
+ // Compare the seconds, which should be the same.
+ TIMESTAMP_BUG = ts1.getTime()/1000 != ts2.getTime()/1000;
--- End diff --
getTime() returns the milliseconds after 1970-01-01 00:00:00. So
getTime()/1000 should return the seconds, which should be the same.
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