Re: date datatype, w3c, java, aargh

George Cristian Bina wrote:

>
> We run into this problem last Friday and I traced it down.
> The implementation the the GregorianCalendar class was changed in Java 
> 1.5. Deep down Jing gets an IllegalArgumentException with the message 
> HOUR_OF_DAY (or something like that) in the GregorianCalendar class 
> and that causes the date datatype not to work.
> The best thing is to stay with Java 1.4 for now. As soon as I will get 
> in the office I can send more details about the exact part of the code 
> that has this problem if that helps.
>
thanks very much! I am glad to know it really is a broken bit of Java, 
thats makes life easier.

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