Changes date parsing to return String if not a valid JS Date

lib/protocol/packets/RowDataPacket.js

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ RowDataPacket.prototype._typeCast = function(field, parser, timeZone, supportBig
     case Types.DATETIME:
     case Types.NEWDATE:
       var dateString = parser.parseLengthCodedString();
+      var dt;
+
       if (dateString === null) {
         return null;
       }
@@ -57,7 +59,12 @@ RowDataPacket.prototype._typeCast = function(field, parser, timeZone, supportBig
         }
       }
 
-      return new Date(dateString);
+      dt = new Date(dateString);
+      if (isNaN(dt.getTime())) {
+        return dateString;
+      }
+
+      return dt;
     case Types.TINY:
     case Types.SHORT:
     case Types.LONG:

test/integration/connection/test-query-dates-as-strings.js

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+var common     = require('../../common');
+var connection = common.createConnection();
+var assert     = require('assert');
+var util       = require('util');
+
+common.useTestDb(connection);
+
+var table = 'dates_as_strings';
+var rows;
+
+connection.query([
+  'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `' + table + '` (',
+  '`id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,',
+  '`dt` DATE,',
+  'PRIMARY KEY (`id`)',
+  ') ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8'
+].join('\n'));
+
+connection.query('INSERT INTO ' + table + ' SET ?', {dt: '0000-00-00'});
+connection.query('INSERT INTO ' + table + ' SET ?', {dt: '2013-00-00'});
+connection.query('INSERT INTO ' + table + ' SET ?', {dt: '2013-03-00'});
+connection.query('INSERT INTO ' + table + ' SET ?', {dt: '2013-03-01'});
+
+connection.query('SELECT * FROM ' + table, function(err, _rows) {
+  if (err) throw err;
+
+  rows = _rows;
+});
+
+connection.end();
+
+process.on('exit', function() {
+  assert.equal(rows.length, 4);
+  assert.equal(rows[0].id, 1);
+  assert.equal(rows[0].dt, '0000-00-00');
+  assert.equal(rows[1].id, 2);
+  assert.equal(rows[1].dt, '2013-00-00');
+  assert.equal(rows[2].id, 3);
+  assert.equal(rows[2].dt, '2013-03-00');
+  assert.equal(rows[3].id, 4);
+  assert(util.isDate(rows[3].dt));
+});