Le 2010-09-30 à 14:36, Chuck Hill a écrit :

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> On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Simon wrote:
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>>> Calendar dates should not be represented by NSTimestamp.  The Date 
>>> prototype is wrong for using it IMHO.
>> 
>> i couldn't agree more. but where do we go from here ?
>> 
>> 1) leave the mysql date prototype as it is now, broken and unusable
> 
> If it is broken, then either no one is using it, or they are using it in a 
> way that your change would break.

We should have unit tests for testing things like that, on most popular 
databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, FrontBase, H2 and Oracle DB Express).

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>> 2) patch the mysql date prototype so that it works properly, but still
>> mapped to NSTimestamp so that we don't break everyone in the world who
>> is using it as an NSTimestamp
>> 
>> 3) change the mysql date prototype completely (i'm a fan of plain old
>> int's) and put up with the flack from the people we break!
>> 
>> 4) alternatively i guess we could just add a new mysql prototype (e.g.
>> intDate) .... ?
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> Why ints?  If we are going to do that, why not find a Java class that gives 
> us what we really want?  Or, uh, what we think we want.
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> Chuck
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