1. During ApacheCon, Laxmikant approached me to discuss CASSANDRA-14227. It was also raised on the list back in January.
Taking a closer look, it probably is not very difficult for us to fix this – either by treating the int as unsigned, or by widening it to a long value. Since this can only easily be done once per major version, and the number of representable dates is steadily declining, there’s a strong case to be made for delivering this for 4.0-beta. The least invasive change is probably to simply permit negative values, and to treat them as unsigned. However, this or using long would both be modest changes. Does anyone have any strong thoughts or opinions on this?
