When you look at the Date class comment you'll see that they are timespans (a Start + a duration ) and not moments in time, like the time on a clock on a certain day. What you want is probably an instance of DateAndTime.
Offray wrote > Well... there is still a minor issue with the hour... is not part of the > date, for some reason. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > El 06/04/15 a las 14:15, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas escribió: >> Thanks Paul, >> >> My bad! Rookie mistake :-). Now is working as implemented in [1] and >> updated in the Dataviz-Twitter package. >> >> [1] http://ws.stfx.eu/L4PZMLV88I8U >> >> Thanks, >> >> Offray >> >> El 05/04/15 a las 22:22, Paul DeBruicker escribió: >>> copyFrom:14 to: 17 copies 4 characters. You're testing a 4 character >>> long >>> string against a 3 character long string. That's why the test fails. >>> Either change it to copyFrom: 15 to:17 or add a trimBoth send to month >>> temp >>> var. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> You may have an easier time not using temp variables in the workspace >>> as you >>> can then explore/inspect them more easily to see what they contain >>> after the >>> calculation has or has not done what you expected. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Offray wrote >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm making a small data scrapper[1] in pharo to feed some >>>> visualizations. The data I'm scrapping contains strings with dates in >>>> Spanish like '16:21 - 15 de jun. de 2011' and I would like to convert >>>> them to proper dates in Smalltalk. So I started prototyping an Small >>>> script at [2], but the problem is that monthIndex at: month doesn't >>>> work >>>> because 'jun' is not in the dictionary (please refer to [2] for >>>> details). This is motivated by month = 'jun' giving false, but when I >>>> inspect month its content is 'jun', so I think that I'm missing >>>> something important. >>>> >>>> [1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Dataviz >>>> [2] http://ws.stfx.eu/IOMTYZ0N9W29 >>>> >>>> So here come my questions: >>>> >>>> a). How to get "monthIndex at: month" working properly so I can get >>>> '06' >>>> as the proper month index for the month 'jun' (junio).? >>>> b) Why month = 'jun' gives false? >>>> c) There is any way to convert strings which has months in different >>>> languages (for example Spanish) more directly? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Offray >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://forum.world.st/Data-scrapping-in-pharo-converting-text-with-dates-in-Spanish-tp4817705p4817757.html >>> >>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Data-scrapping-in-pharo-converting-text-with-dates-in-Spanish-tp4817705p4817882.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
