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?

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.html#a4630814

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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