I had the same problem and I finally ended up using the timestamp type in postgres
and using the getTimestamp function y Java. That worked fine for me.
Esteban Chiner
Jon Windfeld Bundesen escribió:
> I'm trying to read a DATETIME field from my Pg 6.4.2 using JDBC.
>
> When i try reading the date from my ResultSet using ResultSet.getDate()
> i get an error stating:
>
> java.sql.SQLException: Bad Date Format: at 0 in Thu Aug 19 12:19:52 1999
>
> CEST
> at postgresql.ResultSet.getDate(ResultSet.java:407)
> at TestDate.main(TestDate.java:32)
>
> When i try using ResultSet.getTimestamp() instead, i also get an error:
> java.lang.NumberFormatException: 1999 CEST
> at java.lang.Float.<init>(Float.java)
> at postgresql.ResultSet.getTimestamp(ResultSet.java:455)
> at TestDate.main(TestDate.java:32)
>
> I CAN use getString(), but i'd like to get a real Date object, not just
> a String. Can anyone help ?
>
> Best regards,
> Jon Bundesen.
>
> Here is the code if anyone is interested:
> ===========================
>
> Table = foo
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
>
> | Field |
> Type | Length|
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
>
> | dt |
> datetime | 8 |
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
>
> import java.sql.*;
> import java.sql.Date;
>
> public class TestDate {
>
> public static void main (String args[])
> throws Exception
> {
> Connection con;
> Statement statement;
> PreparedStatement preparedStatement;
> ResultSet rs;
> // String url = "jdbc:postgresql:test1";
> String url = "jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/test1";
>
> Class.forName("postgresql.Driver");
> con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, "jon", "");
> con.setAutoCommit( false );
>
> //
>
> statement = con.createStatement();
> statement.executeUpdate("insert into foo values ( current_timestamp
> )");
> con.commit();
> statement.close();
>
> //
>
> statement = con.createStatement();
> rs = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM foo");
> while (rs.next()) {
> System.out.println("Result: " + rs.getTimestamp(1));
> //System.out.println("Result: " + rs.getDate(1));
> }
> rs.close();
> statement.close();
>
> //
>
> con.close();
> }
> }
>
> ************
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