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From: mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PP ST R4 - Date dayOfWeek: neverOnASunday!!
Keywords: bug
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:24:33 GMT
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References: <4992@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <3097@laura.UUCP>
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In article <3097@laura.UUCP>, huba@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Hubert Baumeister) writes:
> In article <4992@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul Menon) writes:
> |> hi,
> |>   A nasty with PPOWST R4 - Beware of converting #Sunday into a day of
> |>   week index.  It gives you 0, not 7.  Maybe because Sunday isn't a
> |>   weekday? :-)  And we *should* be working on Saturday, right?

I remember this one well.  In fact, a goodie to fix it *for version
2.1* is in the Manchester Goodies Archive, c/o Trevor Hopkins, dated
*31 July 1986*.  

It was sent to PARC (this was before PPS was formed) *the same week*.
Sometimes I wonder why we bother...

Mario Wolczko

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