On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com>wrote:
Do we all agree that standardizing on the Unix Epoch is the way to go?
No :)
The argument on the squeak list seemed to be: - the squeak epoch has a certain beauty to it, being the turn of the century vs - why reinvent the wheel? Everybody already knows what the unix epoch is (e.g. you can point them to Wikipedia)
The full discussion is here:
http://forum.world.st/Re-Pharo-project-Epoch-returns-local-offset-td4630581....
The main thing is to make sure that whatever we use is based on UTC and not local time.
So - two options - PharoOffset := 1 January, 1901 UTC - Unix offset
Also, whatever we change it to (and IMHO it really needs to be changed), I think existing live objects from previous Pharos (e.g. that are materialized with fuel) may be invalid (like the recent zip/mcz consequences)
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-- best, Eliot