[Hibernate-devel] Re: Dates + Times

[Gavin_King/Cirrus%<CI...@ci...>]

Actually - I just took a closer look at the code and realised my last post
was wrong....

The current functionality actually *does* copy dates + times. This occurs
even though DateType, TimeType and TimestampType all extend ImmutableType.

So it looks like I had intended to make the performance optimization I
mentioned - but then didn't actually do it properly. Since existing
applications might depend upon the current functionality I can't really do
it now. *yick*

I will refactor the Type heirarchy to have DateType, TimeType,
TimestampType extend NullableType rather than ImmutableType to currectly
reflect their actual behaviour.

At least this will mean theres no gotcha to document....