On 07.07.2016, at 18:33, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>     how does one produce a nice timestamp, simply date and time as in
> 
>     7/7/2016 09:19:38

What's with 'TimeStamp now'  (prints  '8 July 2016 10:34:36 am')

or this one:

TimeStamp now in: [:t |
	String streamContents: [:s |
		t asDate printOn: s format: #(2 1 3 $/ 1 1 2).
		s space.
		t asTime print24: true showSeconds: true on: s]]

Too bad TimeStamp is deprecated in Pharo4, so this works in pharo:


DateAndTime now rounded in: [:t |
	String streamContents: [:s |
		t asDate printOn: s format: #(2 1 3 $/ 1 1 2).
		s space.
		t asTime print24: true showSeconds: true on: s]]

But DateAndTime knows no #rounded in Squeak, buuut:

>=======================

This works for both:


DateAndTime now in: [:t |
	String streamContents: [:s |
		t asDate printOn: s format: #(2 1 3 $/ 1 1 2).
		s space.
		t printHMSOn: s]]

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Best regards
	-Tobias

PS: I'd prefer ISO, nonetheless: https://xkcd.com/1179/
	(or the German way: 25.12.2015 :P)



> 
> Trivial, right?
> 
> So
> 
>     Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', Time now print24 '7/7/2016 09:22:40.914'
> 
> .914, ah, nanos.  How useful.  Let's get rid of them.  No nanos: accessor so
> 
>     Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', (Time now nanos: 0) print24 => MNU
> 
> but there's a seconds accessor, so
> 
>     Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', (Time now seconds: Time now seconds; print24) '7/7/2016 00:00:41
> 
> ??  So seconds: is private, and isn't the dual of Time seconds:
> 
> Time seconds
> 	^ self second
> Time second
> 	^ self asDuration seconds
> Duration seconds
> 	"Answer the number of seconds the receiver represents."
> 	^seconds rem: SecondsInMinute
> 
> Looks broken to me.
> 
> Personally I think print24 should not print sub seconds.
> 
> cc'ing to Pharo because I want this timestamp to be the same in both dialects for a profiling tool we want to use in both dialects.
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot