From 2b7d13e45f1ce3a97f3d4d5a2a58d4286adaa85c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dbetterton <dbetterton@agileassets.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:18:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Use the min/max dates from Oracle directly, not
 theoretical maximums

---
 .../github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
index 8bbf0de..15d2262 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -68,8 +69,17 @@ public final class PredicateBuilder {
 
     public static final Character LIKE_WILDCARD = '*';
 
-    private static final Date START_DATE = new Date(0L) ;
-    private static final Date END_DATE = new Date(99999999999999999L) ;
+    private static final Date START_DATE;
+    private static final Date END_DATE;
+
+    static {
+        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
+        cal.set( 9999, Calendar.DECEMBER, 31);
+        END_DATE = cal.getTime();
+        cal.set( 4712, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
+        cal.set(Calendar.ERA, GregorianCalendar.BC);
+        START_DATE = cal.getTime();
+    }
 
     /**
      * Private constructor.

From 371164fb8cc8f233b1dff61d714e3c13bd5a5480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dbetterton <dbetterton@agileassets.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:00:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Make the start of the range AD as well

---
 .../java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
index 15d2262..77bb25d 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
@@ -73,11 +73,13 @@ public final class PredicateBuilder {
     private static final Date END_DATE;
 
     static {
+        //
+        //  Use a date range that Oracle can cope with
+        //
         Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
         cal.set( 9999, Calendar.DECEMBER, 31);
         END_DATE = cal.getTime();
-        cal.set( 4712, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
-        cal.set(Calendar.ERA, GregorianCalendar.BC);
+        cal.set( 5, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);           //      Use Jan 1, 5 AD, since that's where the Roman's sort of got it together with leap years.
         START_DATE = cal.getTime();
     }
 

From 6d63e2cb77c453bb90a38fd3b60e67a95238003d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dbetterton <dbetterton@agileassets.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:04:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Added more on reason for date range and removed un-needed
 import

---
 .../java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java    | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
index 77bb25d..468e724 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/tennaito/rsql/jpa/PredicateBuilder.java
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ public final class PredicateBuilder {
 
     static {
         //
-        //  Use a date range that Oracle can cope with
+        //  Use a date range that Oracle can cope with - apparently the years around 1 BC and 1 AD are messed up in Oracle - known bug
         //
         Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
         cal.set( 9999, Calendar.DECEMBER, 31);

From b732f0153141b9f9755c5099a6b70f9da60fd3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dbetterton <dbetterton@agileassets.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 10:07:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Update version

---
 pom.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1a5e3b4..1e59fd6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.github.tennaito</groupId>
     <artifactId>rsql-jpa</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.0.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     
     <!--//////////////////// ABOUT ////////////////////-->
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
             <version>2.0.0</version>
         </dependency>
 
-		<!-- Unfortunately we don´t have a cannonical javax.persistence 2.1 yet -->
+		<!-- Unfortunately we don´t have a canonical javax.persistence 2.1 yet -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
 			<artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>