Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?

["Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.851441337@merv>...

>   You are confused. The notion of time has nothing whatsoever to do
>   with the epoch which is a unix specific notion that might or might
not
>   have something to do with the implementation of Time.

Yes, you are right. To much Unix on the mind ? Anyway I think I
an just going leave Calendar alone and simply use the C library
function call.

>   The proper way to get the number of seconds from the epoch to now
is
> 
>      Integer (Calendar.Clock - Epoch_Time);
> 
>   where Epoch_Time is a constant declared as something like
>  
>      Epoch_Time : constant Time := Calendar.Time_Of (1970,1,1,0.0);

Yep, but I will await your reaction to Norman's comment first.

> So I solved it by putting these conversion operation in a child of
> Ada.Calender:
> 
>    YECH! A horrible solution, which is completely non-portable.

I know, that's why I am looking for another solution.

BTW do you know of plans to upgrade the POSIX spec to Ada95 ?

> P.S. can you try to keep your lines to 80 chars, thanks

Hmmm, I've set the line limit to 72...

Thanks for your input!
Jerry.