[rules-users] Low Date question in drools

[Wolfgang Laun]

Why would you want to test for January 1st in year 1? This is not a
value an object of type java.util.Date can represent. See that type's
javadoc for details, but the epoch begins January 1, 1970.

-W


On 9 February 2012 17:19, Nancy Henggeler
<nancy.henggeler at fblfinancial.com>wrote:

> I have a simple rule where I want to bypass elements that have a low date
> but
> drools seems to be interpreting the date different then I am expecting.
> Drools statement and error follows:
>
> ClientSupplement ( dateOfBirth : dateOfBirth != null && != 0001-01-01)
>
> throws error -- Error: [Error: badly formatted number: For input string:
> "001-01-01"] [Near : {... 0001-01-01 ....}] ^ [Line: 1, Column: 1]
>
> How do I get drools to  understand this low date?  I have tried single,
> double, and no quotes around the low date and all result in a similiar
> error
> message.  Please Help!
>
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