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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-7523:
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The current implementation retains the same range of dates as the previous, 4 
bytes worth of days with epoch at the center.  Before, the center was 0 on a 
signed integer, and now epoch is shifted by Integer.MIN_VALUE so we can treat 
the data type as unsigned for purposes of comparability.

I'd prefer we have a date range that extends beyond epoch as our minimum 
representable date.

> add date and time types
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-7523
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7523
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: API
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Joshua McKenzie
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.1.1, 3.0
>
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/datatype-datetime.html
> (we already have timestamp; interval is out of scope for now, and see 
> CASSANDRA-6350 for discussion on timestamp-with-time-zone.  but date/time 
> should be pretty easy to add.)



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