I wondered what the deal was with that when I was playing with Date in the process of poking at the class comment.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Andreas Raab <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas.raab@gmx.de">andreas.raab@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi -<br>
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I've noticed a while ago that at some point in the evolution of Squeak both Time as well as DateAndTime had "nano seconds" added. Unfortunately, the default printing of both of these classes leads to some extremely strange effects now. For example, where historically something like<br>
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DateAndTime now asUTC.<br>
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would print "2010-08-18T23:23:54+00:00" it now prints silly nonsense like this: "2010-08-18T23:17:49.888000007+00:00" (I just found this in one of our log files). Similarly, if you evaluate "Time now" you get results like "4:22:07.369 pm".<br>
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In short, the question is: Is there any point whatsoever to print fractional seconds by default? It seems to me that if you need to print fractional seconds you might as well use some other selector and leave #printOn: with the historical behavior of not printing fractional seconds.<br>
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Anyone in favor of preserving fractional seconds by default please raise your hand and provide some arguments why such behavior would be preferable.<br>
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Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">
- Andreas<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Casey Ransberger<br>