Inconcistency in getters results for DATE types field between text(statement) and binary(prepared statement) resultsets

Numeric getters return year or hour value for date/time types for text resultsets, and throw exception that conversion is impossible, for binary resultsets. I am not sure what is better here, but behavior should be similar . Exception looks a bit more natural here.
Also, for YEAR type getDate behaves differently - date(YEAR-01-01) for text protocol, "Can't be converted" exception for binary.