How to present dates older than 13-Dec-1901 (= the max neg integer --2147483648)

I need to represent a date in the 18xx year range (1888-05-13) which is -2576192400 seconds before 1-1-1970.

getFormattedDateTimeString expects an integer as date input, while the value representing (1888-05-13) is -2576192400 ) and is larger than the maximum negative integer...

anybody a clue ? (if anybody is listening at least...)

tks

Herman

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Tomas_Briceno_Fernandez

This does not exactly fit this forum but, have you tried using elaborate date management implementations like GregorianCalendar?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/GregorianCalendar.html

Cheers,

Tomás

Herman_De_Vloed

Thanks for your reply Tomas. I guess i'll have to dig into something like this, as i fear that the standard Collab functionalities do not allow that.

Herman

Herman_De_Vloed

For the record and who would be interested...

Replaced the code in the template with a SimpleDateFormat function accepting a Long for this specific range of values. (internationalisaton is not an issue in this case, as we are representing the dates in the format yyyy-MM-dd)

greetz,

Herman