On Jun 12, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> > wrote: > Do we all agree that standardizing on the Unix Epoch is the way to go? > > No :)
Why? > > The > argument on the squeak list seemed to be: > - the squeak epoch has a certain beauty to it, being the turn of the century > vs > - why reinvent the wheel? Everybody already knows what the unix epoch is > (e.g. you can point them to Wikipedia) > > The full discussion is here: > http://forum.world.st/Re-Pharo-project-Epoch-returns-local-offset-td4630581.html#a4630814 > > The main thing is to make sure that whatever we use is based on UTC and not > local time. > > So - two options > - PharoOffset := 1 January, 1901 UTC > - Unix offset > > Also, whatever we change it to (and IMHO it really needs to be changed), I > think existing live objects from previous Pharos (e.g. that are materialized > with fuel) may be invalid (like the recent zip/mcz consequences) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/who-can-have-a-look-at-Issue-5913-Remove-Squeak-epoch-tp4634003p4634403.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > -- > best, > Eliot >
