On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Dan Faber wrote:

I am having trouble saving the date of birth of "old" people. There seems to be something wrong with any date before 4/1/1918. When we try to save a birthdate that is before that date, it is saved after subtracting one day. If the DOB is 3/15/1918, it is saved in the DB as 3/14/1918. When it is retrieved from the DB, it is displayed as 3/14/08.

We had a problem with daylight savings time earlier this year. Is this a similar problem? Is there something special about March 31, 1918 or April 1?

I have worked around the problem by adding a day to the NSTimestamp before saving to DB if the date is before 4/1/1918. This is a very unsatisfying solution.

I am using WO5.3, with wonder, on leopard. This happens in both development and deployment.

Thanks for any insight.

Yes, this is a similar problem. Something changed in time on 4/1/1918. A make up day? What ever it was, it is vexing when you want to consider a date a date and not the point in time that Java considers it. I don't have any good solution other than to wait a few more years... :-P



Chuck

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