Re: Advice on Calendar.Time

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

Wilhelm Spickermann wrote:
> REH wrote:
>
> > But I don't think there is anything that is, or should be,
> > OS-dependent with dates and time-of-day, or timezones, or GMT,
> > or UTC, or DST, or leap seconds, etc.  These concepts are well
> > defined and do not change from platform to platform.
>
> I agree. But as the run time system normally depends on the OS
> time services it depends on the configuration of these services.
>
> But even after having the operating system configured in a way
> such that we have no DST and and no posix handling of leap
> seconds, there will be at least one remaining problem:
> Ada.Calendar is inherently POSIX: Day_Duration is too short for
> a leap second and Time_Of called with a seconds value of
> 86_400.0 is forced by ARM 9.6-25 to return the same value as
> Time_Of for the next day with seconds value of 0.0.
>
> Wilhelm

That's fine.  It's consistant.  The problem I am having is that there
is no consistant why to deal with knowing what time zone a particular
Ada implementation uses for Time, and how to force it to use GMT or
UTC.