[squeak-dev] Re: Date[And]Time fractional seconds printing
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Aug 29 02:18:35 UTC 2010
Hi David -
On 8/28/2010 9:55 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> I don't like the idea of having #now disregard fractional seconds.
> Effectively that means that a request for the current time gets
> automatically rounded or truncated to the nearest second, which is
> just plain wrong.
I see your point, but I disagree. To me this is a classic question of
"what should the default be?". And the default should be what most users
of #now expect. From the code that I've looked at, I still haven't found
any place that would benefit from fractional seconds. If that is true,
then I think the default should be whole seconds, with a protocol
allowing to ask for fractional seconds if that case ever comes up. If
you know of any examples in the current system that benefit from
fractional seconds in #now I'd really love to see them.
BTW, does anyone know what the result of "Date[And]Time now" is in other
systems? What do VW, GST, and others return? Whole seconds or fractional?
Cheers,
- Andreas
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