On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:24:20PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Sean" == Sean P DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> writes:
Sean> In New York (EST), "DateAndTime epoch" -> "1901-01-01T00:00:00-04:00" (Squeak Sean> epoch offset by local timezone). Can that be right? It must be constant, no?
But it's not even EST right now (it's EDT), so this has nothing to do with the current time offset, in case that helps. :)
"DateAndTime epoch" refers to the Smalltalk epoch, which is an undefined entity. As long as the value contains 1901-01-01T00:00:00 it is not proveably wrong, because the "definition" of the Smalltalk epoch does not specify if it is intended to refer to a point in time measured in Palo Alto, California, Greenwich England, or New York City. So no, it is not a constant. Dave