The default chronology uses a proleptic Gregorian calendar. Dates before 1580 are treated the same as dates after. Is problem you're seeing caused by the JDBC driver because it is using Java's Calendar class? Is it the Hibernate layer?
Jason Henriksen wrote: > I understand that 0001 is before 1580 and so weird leap year rules > apply. I need a way to disable this. The problem is that we pull a > marker date from the database (01-01-0001 implies > "open-ended-begin-date" while 01-01-9999 implies open ended end date) > When joda loads one of these from the database is decrements the value > by two days. Hibernate then sees that the value has changed and > updates the marker value in the database to a new (and invalid) marker > which is screwing up the database in our project. > > I'm using tooling that interfaces all of this with other APIs so it's > not feasible to pass a different Chronology into each constructor. Is > there a way to make the default Chronology something that doesn't > display this behavior? For that matter is there some way to over ride > DateTime and DateMidnight to make it stop changing the dates like this? > > Thanks, > > Jason Henriksen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
