I posted this about 2 weeks ago and saw no further follow ups. Is this timestamp thing not considered a bug? Or am I just doing something wrong?
Thanks, --Rainer > -----Original Message----- > Sorry to reopen this issue but I still think there is a bug > somewhere, > perhaps in the JDBC driver. The code and the end of this message > demonstrates the bug. Basically I write a timestamp to the > database and then > read it back and what I write and what I get back are different. I don't > see how I can progrmatically make this correct in a consistent way without > knowing the "magic" dates in Postgres. Note that I believe there are more > than just one magic date. Apparently at ever older date (around > 10,000 BC I > believe) the seconds are dropped. > The output from the code is (the computer's time was 03:23:49): > > 1850-Jan-01 03:23:49 JST > 1850-Jan-01 06:23:49 JST > > Thanks, > > --Rainer > > > SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MMM-dd > hh:mm:ss zz" ); > Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); > cal.set( 1850, 00, 01 ); > java.util.Date date = cal.getTime(); > System.out.println( format.format( date ) ); > try { > PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement( > "update cust_prop_date set value = ? where > customer_id = 8791" > ); > ps.setTimestamp( 1, new Timestamp( date.getTime() ) ); > ps.execute(); > ps.close(); > > ps = con.prepareStatement( "select value from cust_prop_date where > customer_id=8791" ); > ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery(); > rs.next(); > date = new java.util.Date( rs.getTimestamp( "value" ).getTime() ); > rs.close(); > ps.close(); > } catch( Exception e ) { > } > System.out.println( format.format( date ) ); ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])