[Newbies] Aida 6.8 on Squeak 4.6

[David T. Lewis]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 03:43:36PM +0100, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
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> David T. Lewis wrote:
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> > Yes, your solution is correct, and I would prefer your implementation
> > over the method quoted above for any version of Squeak.
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> > On older versions of Squeak, the result might not have time zone offset
> > that you expect, so check for that. But the magnitude will be correct
> > in any case. 
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> Perhaps there are reasons to use an implementation that is not defined,
> in terms of fromSeconds:
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> One of the reasons could be the time zone as you indicate.
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> Another may be the resolution (precision) of the time.
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> I guess that it makes more sense to define fromSeconds: in terms of
> fromMilliseconds:  rather than the reverse which I'm doing here.
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NO! You did it right the first time :-)

Dave

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> In any case, a Swazoo implementation could perhaps use different 
> implementations in the case of Squeak 4.6 and in the case of Squeak 5/6.
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> It could use something like a check to see whether self respondsTo:
> localOffsetSeconds and if not use the implementation in terms of fromSeconds:
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> David Stes
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