Can't cast [March, 04 2025 09:20:38 -0800] to date value

[Leftbower]

See here:

DateTimes treated differently between Lucee 6.1.1.118 and 6.2.0.321

After updating to new version Lucee our app blew up wherever it had a struct with a timestamp created with now() that was serialized to JSON and then deserialized to be used again as a datetime. It seems that whenever a negative offset was added during the serializeJSON() call (a positive offset still works), Lucee would throw an error saying it could not be used as a date. To reproduce: dump( { "Java version" : server.java.version, "Lucee version" : server.lucee.version } ); for( i=0; i <= 9…

and here:
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5278

We encountered it using serializeJSON( now() ) as well. It only errs when the ofset is a negative value.