Re: Advice on Calendar.Time

["REH" <spamjunk@stny.rr.com>]

Wilhelm Spickermann wrote:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> > If your operating system is set to make daylight savings time
> > adjustments, you should change that setting.
>
> and additionally check for the handling of leap seconds. If your
> operating system is using "posix"-time, it will _not_ count
> positive leap seconds. There will be a positive leap second at
> the end of this year:
> (http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat)
>
> Wilhelm

My main problem is we are evaluating several compilers (we are
upgrading, finally, to Ada 95).  I am trying to removed any
implemtation-specific things.  I was hoping to handle time without
needing to know if such things like posix are used or not, or whether
local time is used.