Re: [hibernate-dev] HSEARCH Java 8 Date Time

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:34:33PM +0100, Davide D'Alto wrote: > I'm not sure there is an easy way to convert Instant and DateTime to a > numeric value. > The problem is that the resolution for temporal types is nanoseconds, the > following datetime is valid: > > year: -999.999.999 > month: 12 > day: 31 > hour: 23 > minute: 59 > second: 59 > nanos: 999.999.999 > > It gets more complicated when we need to store Offset or time zone. Why not just call Instant#toEpochMilli. I thought we agreed that for instant based time we stick to epoch time. There might be a loss in resolution, but I think this is fine in our case. --Hardy