[SVN-2359] Timestamps returned by Javahl are truncated

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.x
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: bindings_javahl
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 12/Jul/05 18:20
• Updated: 02/Jun/07 19:38

Description

The javahl layer truncates the timestamp value returned by the native 
subversion libraries to fit into a java.util.Date object, which cannot 
accomodate the full timestamp value maintained by subversion. 

this makes it impossible to use the timestamp information returned by the 
javahl libraries to retrieve a particular revision by date. This behavior is 
not consistent with the native API behavior. 

example of truncation from Status.java: 
   /**
     * Returns the last date the item was changed or null
     * @return the last time the item was changed.
     * or null if not available
     */
    public Date getLastChangedDate()
    {
        if (lastChangedDate == 0)
            return null;
        else
            return new Date(lastChangedDate / 1000);
    }

there should be a corresponding method on all classes which provide timestamp 
information to retrieve the underlying long value. all methods which currently 
take a Date should have corresponding methods accepting longs to specify the 
date accurately.

Original issue reported by acutright