[squeak-dev] Some DateAndTime experiments
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Apr 19 18:50:37 UTC 2014
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:44:34AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A 64 bits Spur should also scale our SmallIntegers up to 2^62, which can
> > completely change the figures anyway.
>
> Likely 2^60. 3 bits for tags, 1 bit for sign, hence SmallInteger maxVal =
> (2^60) - 1 , which is 36,000 years into the future :-)
>
> DateAndTime fromSeconds: (1 << 60) - 1 // 1000000 38435-08-17T21:30:06-07:00
Ha! Reminds me of the guy who thought 640k was going to be enough ;-)
Dave
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