Re: calander package

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <98lis0$56j$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>If it is homework, it is a pretty trivial assignment. Considering that many
>languages come with existing string-formatted dates/times &/or subprograms
>to get you there. Its more a matter of "What stuff do I call to get this to
>happen" in most cases. Ada's Calendar package probably should have had this
>in it somewhere, but its no biggie to roll-your-own. (Unless you want to get
>really fancy! :-)
>
>Seems to me that "arcele" did the hard part in finding Calendar and how to
>call things in it. The rest is probably fair game for an inquiry or
>"software reuse", even if it is homework.

Well, with that caveat, I'll mention that the 2.0 release of the SETI@Home
service just happens to have a routine in it that does exactly that (for
date/time-stamping log entries). It'd probably be just as easy for most folks to
write their own, though.

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