ResultSet.getDate failure with timestamp column

Hi,

I'm trying to migrate an existing application to postgresql
that uses generated code for accessing the database layer.

I search the mailing list and found other references to that problem
which seems to have been fixed in Revision 1.26 of ResultSet.java
and seems to be removed in Revision 1.29

Here is the stack trace with the DevelopmentDriver 7.2dev (built 2001-10-31)

java.lang.NumberFormatException: 04 00:00:00-04
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:414)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:454)
    at java.sql.Date.valueOf(Date.java:91)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.toDate(ResultSet.java:1557)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getDate(ResultSet.java:372)
    at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getDate(ResultSet.java:607)


Any good reason why it was removed? It seems to be contrary to the
spec from what I read in this mailing list.

Thanks

Daniel