From: Warren Young
Date: July 30 2009 3:23pm
Subject: Re: mysqlpp::Time and negative times
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Adrian Cornish wrote:
> 
> What about adding another constructor with Time(short char h, unsigned
> char m, unsigned char s);
> The class could then keep track of which constructor was used and if
> the hour value could/should be negative.
> 
> Or a bool flag (with getters & setters) could be added to class to
> indicate sign.

These change the size of the object, and thus the library's ABI.