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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-7523: -------------------------------------------- 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 > ----------------------- > > 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 > > > 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.) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)