[squeak-dev] Re: Locale & TimeZones in 4.0 image

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 18:13:22 UTC 2013


On 12 January 2013 17:02, glenpaling <slp5591 at me.com> wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote
>> ...I put that in quotes because it turns out that the Squeak definition of
>> Smalltalk epoch is just plain wrong. It should be this:
>>
>>   DateAndTime epoch ==> 1901-01-01T00:00:00-00:00
>>
>> Not this:
>>
>>   DateAndTime epoch ==> 1901-01-01T00:00:00-05:00
>>
>> ...
>
> I'm in the same timezone but when I tried DateAndTime epoch, I got
> 1901-01-01T00:00:00+01:00. The general preference "use locale" isn't enabled
> in the 4.4 image (I'll add this to the 4.5 list). Timezone is stuck in
> Frank's locale. Tim is this causing some of your problems?

Mine would be the correct timezone :) GMT!

More seriously, the 4.4 release process doesn't fiddle with this stuff
(as far as I recall). If it does need to fiddle with this stuff, let's
put it on the 4.5 checklist.

frank


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