From b7e477559c230f10bbe12f11ba4c6c56000b88db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pruthvikar <pruthvikar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 21:46:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Update BinaryUtils.swift

replaced internal reference date interval calculation with Foundation
---
 Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
index 76501e3..b20994d 100644
--- a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
+++ b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
@@ -216,15 +216,6 @@ struct BinaryUtils {
     
     // MARK: - Date / Time
     
-    struct TimestampConstants {
-        static let referenceDate: Date = {
-            let components = DateComponents(year: 2000, month: 1, day: 1)
-            var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian)
-            calendar.timeZone = TimeZone(abbreviation: "UTC")!
-            return calendar.date(from: components)!
-        }()
-    }
-    
     static func parseTimetamp(value: UnsafeMutablePointer<Int8>, isInteger: Bool) -> Date {
         let interval: TimeInterval
         if isInteger {
@@ -234,7 +225,7 @@ struct BinaryUtils {
             let seconds = parseFloat64(value :value)
             interval = TimeInterval(seconds)
         }
-        return Date(timeInterval: interval, since: TimestampConstants.referenceDate)
+        return Date(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: interval)
     }
     
     // MARK: - Interval

From 08aa39465be2c40aa7a7f0513f15958cd69010c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pruthvikar <pruthvikar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 21:48:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update Bind.swift

replaced removed function with timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
---
 Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
index ebd87ef..bf7eaf9 100644
--- a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
+++ b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ public final class Bind {
      Creates an input binding from a Date.
      */
     public convenience init(date: Date, configuration: Configuration) {
-        let interval = date.timeIntervalSince(BinaryUtils.TimestampConstants.referenceDate)
+        let interval = date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
         
         if configuration.hasIntegerDatetimes {
             let microseconds = Int64(interval * 1_000_000)

From f3eee229addfe8152b7ea78bccc4cec87d5a0746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pruthvikar Reddy <pruthvikar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 01:28:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Changed reference date to correct year (2000 as opposed
 to 2001)

---
 Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift | 9 ++++++++-
 Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift        | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
index b20994d..675907d 100644
--- a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
+++ b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/BinaryUtils.swift
@@ -215,6 +215,13 @@ struct BinaryUtils {
     }
     
     // MARK: - Date / Time
+
+    struct TimestampConstants {
+      // Foundation referenceDate is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 2001,
+      // the reference date we want is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 2000
+      static let offsetTimeIntervalSinceFoundationReferenceDate: TimeInterval = -31_622_400
+      static let referenceDate = Date(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: offsetTimeIntervalSinceFoundationReferenceDate)
+    }
     
     static func parseTimetamp(value: UnsafeMutablePointer<Int8>, isInteger: Bool) -> Date {
         let interval: TimeInterval
@@ -225,7 +232,7 @@ struct BinaryUtils {
             let seconds = parseFloat64(value :value)
             interval = TimeInterval(seconds)
         }
-        return Date(timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: interval)
+        return Date(timeInterval: interval, since: TimestampConstants.referenceDate)
     }
     
     // MARK: - Interval
diff --git a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
index bf7eaf9..4c417b8 100644
--- a/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
+++ b/Sources/PostgreSQL/Bind/Bind.swift
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ public final class Bind {
      Creates an input binding from a Date.
      */
     public convenience init(date: Date, configuration: Configuration) {
-        let interval = date.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate
-        
+        let interval = date.timeIntervalSince(BinaryUtils.TimestampConstants.referenceDate)		
+
         if configuration.hasIntegerDatetimes {
             let microseconds = Int64(interval * 1_000_000)
             var value = microseconds.bigEndian