Fix or workaround date before 1900

[kevinock]

Hello,

I work in a company, and I search help with your api to use date before 1900.

I use this code :

TimeTableXYDataset dataset = new TimeTableXYDataset();
Day day = new Day(myTime); // my time it's my date before 1900 for example 1890

I got this exception :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The 'year' argument must be in range 1900 to 9999.
	at org.jfree.date.SpreadsheetDate.<init>(SpreadsheetDate.java:114)
	at org.jfree.date.SerialDate.createInstance(SerialDate.java:795)
	at org.jfree.data.time.Day.<init>(Day.java:188)
	at org.jfree.data.time.Day.<init>(Day.java:156)

This exception is on the class : org.jfree.chart.date.SpreadshhetDate
I use this dataset for build a shart : JFreeChart createTimeSeriesChart(...)

Do you have any workaround or fix for date before 1900 ?

Thank you.

[jfree]

That is a bad limitation. Originally I wrote the SerialDate class to mirror the values used in spreadsheets like Excel, which start at 1900. I would like to rework all the time period classes (and the DateAxis) to use the Java Date/Time API in Java 8, but I haven't had time to start on that yet.

Perhaps as a workaround you could use the FixedMillisecond class to represent the day for your data points.

[kHasnain0]

jfree is this still an issue or is this closed?

[kHasnain0]

jfree is this still an issue or is this closed?

Confirmed issue still open

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The 'year' argument must be in range 1900 to 9999.
at org.jfree.chart.date.SpreadsheetDate.(SpreadsheetDate.java:92)
at org.jfree.chart.date.SerialDate.createInstance(SerialDate.java:741)
at org.jfree.data.time.Day.(Day.java:108)
at TimeSeriesChart.main(TimeSeriesChart.java:17)