If I use a com.google.gwt.i18n.client.DateTimeFormat with my own pattern,
like "yyyy-MM-dd", I run into the situation described in the Javadocs under
"Additional Parsing Considerations" if the user enters a two digit year 00
(most likely intending it to be the year 2000).
The following code:
DateTimeFormat fmt = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date d = fmt.parse("00-01-01");
System.out.println(d + " getYear: " + d.getYear() + " getTime: " +
d.getTime());
long d1 = d.getTime();
d = fmt.parse("01-01-01");
System.out.println(d + " getYear: " + d.getYear() + " getTime: " +
d.getTime());
long d2 = d.getTime();
long diff = d2 - d1;
System.out.println((diff/1000.0/60/60/24/366));
Results in:
Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1 getYear: -1899 getTime: -62167374000000
Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1 getYear: -1899 getTime: -62135751600000
1.0
So, I believe that internally the date is on the right year, since the two
dates are different by 366 days (apparently year 0 was a leap year), but
when getting the year from it, it adjusts year 0 to 1.
This is messing up logic I have with a custom extension of DateTimeFormat
to adjust how two-digit years are parsed - the first step in parse is
super.parse(text), and then I do my own adjustment by 1900 or 2000 after
that. So, entries of 00 are being turned into 2001.
This is actually a Java "problem", and we can get into a long metaphysical
discussion of whether there really should be a year 0 or not, but it does
affect parsing, and I believe that the way that DateTimeFormat handles
two-digit years supplied to a "yyyy" pattern brings it to the forefront.
So, the question is, should GWT's Date emulation be faithful to its Java
equivalent, or behave in a manner consistent with DateTimeFormat?
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