Hi All,
I am developing an app using AppFuse 2.0 with Hibernate and Struts 2.
I've just finished refactoring it to use Joda-time components and I
really like their clean functionality, thanks for all the effort that's
gone in so far.
I'm having a problem with searching date fields in the database
however. It's hard to know if it's a Joda-time issue or a Hibernate
issue, but hopefully folks here can help me work that out.
The application I'm developing will only ever be run within the one
timezone - here in Western Australia (UMT + 9 with summertime). One of
the reasons I introduced Joda-time was to help eliminate some unwanted
timezone issues I was getting with java.util.Date.
So, I elected to use joda LocalDate, LocalTime and LocalDateTime types
throughout my application, believing that would eliminate my TZ-related
problems. It seems to have done that, with one exception.
When I query the Database via Hibernate, there seems to be some sort of
date adjustment happening that I am assuming is TZ related.
I am building my query using Hibernate's Criteria class. I set my date
criteria as follows:
criteria.add(Expression.between("departureDate", startDate, endDate);
where "departureDate" refers to a POJO attribute that has been defined
using the appropriate @Type annotation as a PersistentLocalDate and
"startDate" and "endDate" are LocalDate variables.
My problem is that when I execute this query, the dates are being
"shifted left" by one day. For example, if I'm searching for dates
between today (12 Dec here) and 7 days hence (19 Dec), I find that the
query Hibernate executes has the parameter values '11 December 2007' and
'18 December 2007' respectively. I've traced the code and confirmed
that at the point of adding the criteria (via the code snipped above)
the 'startDate' and 'endDate' values are correct (looking at them via
the Eclipse debugger).
Can anyone explain to me why this is happening and how I can stop it
from happening?
In case it's relevant, my development db is Postgres and the relevant
column has been defined as type "date" (created programmatically by
Maven using Hibernate's hbm2ddl goal). FWIW, my Test and Prod DBs are
Oracle, but I've not got to the point of deploying to the Test platform yet.
TIA,
Rob Hills
Waikiki, Western Australia
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