Not used as offset in DateAndTime, Durations can be anything, both negative as well as positive, like in

'2010-01-02' asDate - '2012-06-08' asDate

'2010-01-02' asDate - DateAndTime now

On 09 Jun 2012, at 19:53, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be> wrote:
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> On 09 Jun 2012, at 14:24, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
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> > The seconds/nanoseconds are always positive when normalized.
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> > Are you sure?
> > I have just changed (for testing) to this:
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> >     DateAndTime localTimeZone: (TimeZone timeZones detect: [:tz | tz abbreviation = 'EST']).
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> > And now if I do:
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> > DateAndTime now offset asSeconds ---->   -18000
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> The seconds/nanoseconds in DateAndTime itself are like that,
> the TZ offset can be positive and negative:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timezone
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> <<Most of the 40 time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours (UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few are offset by 30 or 45 minutes.>>
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> Ok, perfect. And what about durations outside DateAndTime. Say if I do: "-123 seconds"   is that valid?  I mean, should we accept normal durations (not the instVar offset of a DateAndTime) with negative seconds/nanoseconds?
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> thanks
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