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From: kthompso@netcom.com (Kevin Thompson)
Subject: Re: Time Bomb! ParcPlace Timestamp - vw20-010.
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:34:13 GMT
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In article <4f52d9$1ds@inrou.erno.de>,
Thomas.Kendelbacher <token@erno.de> wrote:
>In article sgq@news3.cts.com, webber@cts.com (Paul Webber) writes:
>>Yesterday, (Feb 1, 1996), was the first occurance of the error in the
>>class Timestamp for computing the date. The asDate method is now
>>wrong, as are some of the asSeconds calculations. Parcplace does have
>>a fix on their web server, vw20-010.st. I will include it here also.
>>(Hopefully that's OK with ParcPlace).
>
>As a quick attempt to verify the bug (on VW 2.0), I evaluated
>"Timestamp now asDate" which gave me "Message not understood",
>because already the #now method itself is flawed. :-(
>
>(which of course hasn't got to do anything with the date of today,
>assuming that ParcPlace didn't implement a hideous mechanism to remove
>the method #fromTime: on 01-Feb-96  ;-)

Look at patch vw20-006, which fixes this Message not understood problem
(introduced by patch vw20-002)..

Kevin

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