Re: [Geotools-devel] Approach to handling negative dates

2016-04-13 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Hey folks, > > I wanted to start a new thread on this topic to talk about implementation > approach, since I think we can all agree that the current patch (which has > been closed) needs to be redone, at least to some extent. > > In gene

Re: [Geotools-devel] Approach to handling negative dates

2016-04-12 Thread Jody Garnett
You are module maintainer here so let's focus on approach. I am happy to write the results of this email thread up as a proposal if needed. I kind of like (2) especially we we can use the "bigdate" already recorded. We wrote this api for a situation like this and I would love to see it used. It a

[Geotools-devel] Approach to handling negative dates

2016-04-12 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hey folks, I wanted to start a new thread on this topic to talk about implementation approach, since I think we can all agree that the current patch (which has been closed) needs to be redone, at least to some extent. In general I can think of two approaches to this: 1. Follow the path laid down