Am 17.05.2012 um 05:48 schrieb "Sean P. DeNigris" <sean@clipperadams.com>:
David T. Lewis wrote
But it seems to me that it would be vastly simpler to just use a definition that is already agreed and documented (i.e. Posix epoch), and leave the "Smalltalk epoch" behind as an interesting historical artifact.
I created an issue... Issue 5913: Remove Squeak epoch http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5913
Great Sean, I've this on my todo sheet for a long time now. I started multiple times fixing things but never finished because there is loads to do. So let's join efforts. @David That is a good proposal to base calculation on posix epoch. I blindly assumed smalltalk epoch is wrong. So I better read the specs before changing DateAndTime>>#midnight Norbert
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