Trouble with JDBC2 ResultSet.getDate()

System is Debian "woody"
java is IBM SDK1.3
Source is CVS from March 20, 2001.

Trouble is the following, that

org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getDate(int)

Started to generate errors

java.lang.NumberFormatException: 15 14:25:17+02
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:415)
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:455)
        at java.sql.Date.valueOf(Date.java:97)
        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getDate(ResultSet.java:427)
        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getDate(ResultSet.java:665)
...

when fetching dates from fields of timestamp
type. It seems that the fixes provided in CVS version 1.18 from Jan 24
23:41:04 2001 of ResultSet.java regarding getDate() method broke it for
our application. Now I went back to 1.17 and copied the

  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 
     try {
       return new java.sql.Date(df.parse(s).getTime());
     } catch (ParseException e) {
       throw new PSQLException("postgresql.res.baddate",new
Integer(e.getErrorOffset()),s);
     }

part to replace the new code:

     return java.sql.Date.valueOf(s);

and it works fine but I have not had time to debug this any further. May
be it would be nice to have that part of the old code included in the 7.1
release driver?

Regards,

Juhan Ernits