sakai is pestimistic about the future

I needed a sakai Time object that would represent a time beyond any 
that would likely be reached in the next few generations.  So what the 
heck:

Time endOfLifeAsWeKnowIt = TimeService.newTime(Long.MAX_VALUE);

That turns out to be Aug 17, 292278994 at 7:12 am.  That's right.  The 
year is 292,278,994.  But this leads to an exception when you try to 
store it in the database.  In trying to parse the date, you end up with 
a string index of -5.  To be fair, maybe it's Hypersonic that's 
pessimistic about us making it out of four-digit years (decimal).  
Guess I'll scale back my expectations and set 9999 as the end of 
time....

Jim



Jim Eng
jimeng@xxxxxxxxx

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