[ANSI-Smalltalk] Dates & Times

[Bruce Badger]

Richard,

We don't seem to have a Step addressing Time as yet:

  http://smalltalk.gnu.org/step/steps-smalltalk-enhancement-proposals

Would you be willing to lead the creation of one?

All the best,
    Bruce

2008/9/5 Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>:
> What I'm really concerned about is things like the
> DateAndTime class, where the ANSI specification
> appears to be unimplementable.  There are two
> conflicting requirements: we must be able to do
> arithmetic on these timestamps, and they must be
> in UTC. This requires the ability to predict leap
> seconds for hundreds of years in advance...

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