On 14/06/2019 13:01, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > And I repeat what I said earlier: if Firebird uses an offset that is > too large then I can't use the standard features in Java for date/time > handling and I'll need to mangle things myself to get a - hopefully - > meaningful value.
What is the Java range? The FB encoding has a greater range but when parsing a string it limits per the SQL standard: tzm <= 59 && (tzh < 14 || (tzh == 14 && tzm == 0)) We should verify the descriptor values too if not being done. Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel