Re: [rules-users] Low Date question in drools

Hello Laun, Thank you for your quick response. This date is a date coming from a DB2 date field and is valid in my incoming data. Frankly, I am with you, why not null versus a silly low date as such, arggggh. But since it is coming in as such do you know of a work around? Thank so much, Nancy From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Rules Users List <rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Date: 02/09/2012 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [rules-users] Low Date question in drools Sent by: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org ------------------------------ 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(a)fblfinancial.com* <nancy.henggeler(a)fblfinancial.com&gt;&gt; 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! -- View this message in context: * http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Low-Date-question-in-drools-tp3729940p3... *<http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Low-Date-question-in-drools-tp3729940p3729940.html> Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list* **rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org* <rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org&gt;* **https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users*<https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users> _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message, and please delete it from your computer. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users