> On 07 Jul 2016, at 18:33, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > how does one produce a nice timestamp, simply date and time as in > > 7/7/2016 09:19:38 > > Trivial, right?
I understand that you want it 'nice and clean', but the above is not precise (no TZ) and confusing (is it M/D/YYYY or D/M/YYYY ?). Going more in the ISO direction is better (more universal), IMHO. DateAndTime now rounded => "2016-07-07T18:45:12+02:00" > So > > Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', Time now print24 '7/7/2016 09:22:40.914' > > .914, ah, nanos. How useful. Let's get rid of them. No nanos: accessor so > > Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', (Time now nanos: 0) print24 => MNU > > but there's a seconds accessor, so > > Date today mmddyyyy, ' ', (Time now seconds: Time now seconds; print24) > '7/7/2016 00:00:41 > > ?? So seconds: is private, and isn't the dual of Time seconds: > > Time seconds > ^ self second > Time second > ^ self asDuration seconds > Duration seconds > "Answer the number of seconds the receiver represents." > ^seconds rem: SecondsInMinute > > Looks broken to me. > > Personally I think print24 should not print sub seconds. > > cc'ing to Pharo because I want this timestamp to be the same in both dialects > for a profiling tool we want to use in both dialects. > _,,,^..^,,,_ > best, Eliot
