[hibernate-dev] HSEARCH Java 8 Date Time

[Davide D'Alto]

I've sent a pull request:
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-search/pull/887



Davide

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> 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
>