> On 9 Apr 2018, at 18:52, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote >> I think that making Date always UTC will probably not help, because you >> will want to be able to move between timezones > > Two things: > - I don't think changing timezones will be affected, because my proposal is > only: "default to 0 offset for new Date[AndTime] instances where no offset > is specified". This would not prevent changing the offset later on (although > one would make the case that since guessing default offset is unfixable in > practice in the core, it should be removed altogether), and it also wouldn't > affect the offset of the image, so `Date today` would still use the local > offset. > - I'm not saying that it is a panacea, but it will avoid the bug in > question. It is less wrong than the current behavior and will allow those of > us on DST to keep our sanity while we come up with a more perfect long term > solution. > > What is the downside to this change?
So you want to change '1/1/1990' asDate. so that it does the equivalent of (DateAndTime fromString: '1990-01-01T00:00:00Z') asDate. While you would not want to change Date today. so that it does the equivalent of DateAndTime now asUTC asDate. ? Is that the key change ? And why not the second ? > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html >
