Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > what is the DateAndTime localOffset? "Answer the duration we are offset > from UTC" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time - In casual use, when fractions of a second are not important, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) can be considered equivalent to UTC or UT1. In fact, saying "GMT" often implies either UTC or UT1. For this reason, saying "GMT" is generally avoided in technical contexts, with an unambiguous terminology of "UTC" or "UT1" preferred instead.
Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > Your changes basically uses DateAndTime localOffset when no offset is > specified (and before it used zero). > It sounds reasonable but I was wondering the impact. > Yes, that's correct. I changed it for two reasons: 1. when someone says, "6pm," I don't think they ever mean GMT (unless, of course, that's their local time). 2. The non-[string|stream] instance creation methods (e.g. DateAndTime date: Date today time: Time now) do not operate that way, and return a DateAndTime like "2010-08-10T17:11:36-04:00" (with my local offset) HTH, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Fixed-Issue-2754-DateAndTime-creation-from-string-stream-using-incorrect-default-offset-tp2315601p2320464.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
