On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 22:07:17 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I see your point, but no one has stumbled into/over it before. > Rationalizing here... > The presence of the exception is a reminder that there are values of epoch > milliseconds that `Instant` can not represent. > It is also the case that `long` cannot represent them either. > For example `Instant.MIN.toEpochMilli()` throws and the method > `Instant.ofEpochSecond(sec, nanos)` throws with Long.MIN_VALUE and > Long.MAX_VALUE. I'm surprised it hasn't come up as declaring that it throws DateTimeException "if the instant exceeds the maximum or minimum instant" is a testable assertion. Maybe as part of this removal there should be an apiNote will some verbiage on what can be represented. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12958
