Adrian Cornish wrote:
>
> I've tried using mysqlpp::Time for negative times but I just get unsigned
> overflow on the hour field.
Are you talking about time time_t ctor or the h,m,s ctor?
> Is there another type I should be using or does mysqlpp::Time need expanding
> for negative times.
The latter. Patches thoughtfully considered. :)
>>From mysql docs: TIME
> <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time.html>values may range
> from
> '-838:59:59' to '838:59:59'.
Wow, that's pretty random. I wonder where they came up with those numbers?
If you supply a patch to fix this, I'd just make it use signed
characters for now. That's not *quite* an ABI breakage, whereas
switching to a short would be. Obviously this is only helpful if you
only need +/- 5ish days of range. If you need between 5 and 35 days, no
such support will appear in MySQL++ before v4.
I've added this to the Wishlist.
