<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="im"><div>On 17.05.2012, at 19:29, Eliot Miranda wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">What is ambiguous about the start of the 20-th century in GMT?</blockquote><div><br>
</div></div><div>Nothing. But Smalltalk epoch was not defined in GMT. It's local time.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure I buy that. Looking at Smalltalk-80 v2 the California timezone was hardwired in. So I think the epoch was in GMT and e.g. Time currentSeconds: #seconds answered the number of seconds from the GMT epoch. certainly that's what the Cog VMs answer. But there's nothing to stop us firming up the definition. 1970 is a pretty arbitrary choice of epoch. The start of the 20th century has a certain elegance. Even Microsoft have a nice epoch (the start of the gregorian calendar IIRC). Why slavishly follow unix when we have something distinctive and hard-wired into the VMs? Why not just define the Smalltalk epoch properly?</div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica">- Bert -</span></div></span></div><br></font></span></div><br><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div><br>