What about keeping the existing selector #dayOfWeek, and making it respect Week>>startDay?
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 8:35 AM David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
The addition of #dayOfLocalWeek is a good addition. But I want ask about the selector name and category. This isn't a criticism, more of a question because I do not understand how is it used in practice.
We have #toggleStartMonday that changes start day to either #Monday or #Sunday. This is an original brp method, but I don't know the reason for it. And #dayOfWeek is listed in the 'ansi-protocol'. Is the start day of week actually specified in the ANSI standard?
While I cannot think of any better selector name, I tend to think of "local" as refering to local time offset from UTC, so dayOfLocalWeek seems misleading in that sense. To me it seems more like dayOfLocalWeek is a dayOfWeek that is corrected for the toggled startDay. So maybe a name like correctedDayOfWeek or dayOfWeekCorrected might work? But these do not seem satisfactory either, because they do not suggest what is being corrected.
Suggestions welcome, and if nobody can think of a better idea then I am +1 for moving this to trunk as it is.
Dave
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 04:00:19PM +0000, commits@source.squeak.org wrote:
Chris Cunningham uploaded a new version of Chronology-Core to project The Inbox: http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Chronology-Core-cbc.41.mcz
==================== Summary ====================
Name: Chronology-Core-cbc.41 Author: cbc Time: 22 April 2019, 8:58:13.835953 am UUID: 3d8013b6-d58f-004e-8e6b-5a59ed5841e7 Ancestors: Chronology-Core-dtl.40
We have the ability to change the starting day of the week (Week>>startDay:). This change adds #dayOfLocalWeek to DateAndTime and Timespan to return the indexed day of the week based on the altered starting day. Original #dayOfWeek is left as-is along with all other working code.
=============== Diff against Chronology-Core-dtl.40 ===============
Item was added:
- ----- Method: DateAndTime>>dayOfLocalWeek (in category 'ansi protocol') -----
- dayOfLocalWeek
"Sunday=1, ... , Saturday=7"
^ (self julianDayNumber + 2 - Week weekdayStartIndex rem: 7) + 1
- !
Item was added:
- ----- Method: Timespan>>dayOfLocalWeek (in category 'ansi protocol') -----
- dayOfLocalWeek
"Answer the day of the week represented by the receiver."
^ start dayOfLocalWeek!
Item was added:
- ----- Method: Week class>>weekdayStartIndex (in category 'squeak protocol') -----
- weekdayStartIndex
^self indexOfDay: self startDay!