On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 17.05.2012, at 19:29, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> What is ambiguous about the start of the 20-th century in GMT?
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> Nothing. But Smalltalk epoch was not defined in GMT. It's local time.
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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?


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best,
Eliot
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