300 million years is more than enough :-) Is there a way to get this long to deserialize automatically to a Java 7 compatible type, like java.util.Date ? (I'm using a framework which currently has issues on JDK 8).
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Evan McClain <aeroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:43:29PM -0500, David Lauzon wrote: > > > > I don't see a Date data type in the spec: > > [1]http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#schema_primitive > > I've seen some old discussions in the ML and issues suggesting to > > serialize it using the UNIX epoch in a long value. > > However, how do we store events older than 1970 like birthdate ? > > > > References > > > > 1. http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#schema_primitive > > Using ms since UNIX epoch should be fine for dates earlier than 1970 since > it > gets stored as a signed long. Dates before 1970 will just have a negative > value. > > If you are dealing with dates *really* far in the past (i.e. almost 300 > million > years ago) you probably need to do something special. > > -- > Evan McClain > https://keybase.io/aeroevan >
