[squeak-dev] UTCDateAndTime updated for Squeak trunk Chronology and Spur (was: UTCDateAndTime updated for Squeak 4.6/5.0)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Mar 12 16:04:11 UTC 2016


On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:21:38AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:36:02PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > UTCDateAndTime is a UTC based implementation of class DateAndTime with
> > one instance variable representing the magnitude of the point in time,
> > and another representing local time zone offset.
> 
> I have updated the UTCDateAndTime package to make it loadable in the latest
> Squeak trunk and Spur.

Has anyone looked at this yet? Any interest?

Dave

> 
> A new Monticello repository is at http://www.squeaksource.com/UTCDateAndTime.
> The home page (with a new SAR) is at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6197.
> 
> Starting with an updated trunk image, you can load UTCDateAndTime in two ways:
> 
> 1) Open the http://www.squeaksource.com/UTCDateAndTime repository, and load
> the MCZ files in sequence beginning with Chronology-Core-dtl.3.
> 
> 2) In a preferences browser, in category 'updates' set the 'Update URL'
> preference to 'http://www.squeaksource.com/UTCDateAndTime', and do
> world -> help... -> update code from server.
> 
> The main objective of UTCDateAndTime is to make DateAndTime conceptually
> simpler, but a happy side effect is that it is also significantly faster
> than the old implementation.
> 
> Dave


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