At Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:54:19 -0400,
Rob Rothwell wrote:
>
> How do I reference dates prior to 1900 in Squeak?
>
> When I print, for instance d := Date fromString: '01/01/1800', I get 1 January 3700.
>
> 1700 = 3600,
>
> etc...
>
> Should I be using a different Date/TimeStamp package for this sort of thing?
It is only #readFrom: is trying to be too helpful, but the system
itself can surely represent these earlier dates.
Date class>>year:month:day:
does the right thing.
-- Yoshiki
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