At 07:25 PM 5/24/00 +0200, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
>At 18:26 23.05.00 +0000, Lex Spoon wrote:
>
>>I sent around patches along these
>>lines for Unix to get the discussion going, and even patched Celeste to
>>use it, but it didn't catch on.
>
>Let's try it again for 2.9a (which should be available soon).  If your 
>patch isn't added, it often simply means we all overlooked it.  Nobody 
>should feel ignored here.  Just be stubborn, lobby for inclusion and 
>mention it again and again ;-)
>
>>   Time management is a general Squeak
>>problem, and there seems to be an easy solution....
>
>Yes.
>
>>   It just requires
>>someone who cares and has some time to deal with it.
>
>Yes.  Daniel's solution was a quick and simple fix for the problem which 
>required no VM modification or other large refactorings.  A better solution 
>should eventually replace it.

I'd suggest using an ANSI DateAndTime.  It has time zone information and
also as an extra handles daylight saving period.

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